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7,386	“Истории о великих деяниях не только вдохновляют нас, не только будят в нас все лучшее и усиливают нашу веру в человека, но и напоминают о том, насколько проще и безопаснее стала сегодня жизнь для большинства из нас. Разве требуется так уж много мужества, чтобы противостоять боссу, который плохо обошелся с вашим коллегой? Худшее, что с вами может случиться, — это увольнение. Но ведь вас не будут пытать и не посадят в одиночную камеру, как Стокдейла, так неужели трудно вести себя достойно и честно в повседневной жизни? Если на то пошло, сохранить свою честь можно и не прибегая к жестокому самоубийству, как Катон. Только представьте, насколько лучше стал бы наш мир, если бы все мы каждый день проявляли чуть больше мужества, мудрости, умеренности и боролись против несправедливости.”	stoicism
6,938	“To the Stoics, a good life meant living in accordance with nature, both universal nature – accepting the world for what it is, not resisting it because we think it should be different – and our own nature as human beings.”	stoicism
6,986	“The best way to have people laugh with you and not at you, is to get ahead of them and laugh at yourself first.”	stoicism
7,147	“You can be too old to live, but not too young to die.”	stoicism
6,888	“Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself. What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of your observing it in yourself. Avoid fear, too, though fear is only the consequence of every sort of falsehood. Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love.”	stoicism
6,959	“[I]f you gape after externals, you must of necessity ramble up and down in obedience to the will of your master. And who is the master? He who has the power over the things which you seek to gain or try to avoid.”	stoicism
7,536	“We have never tried to do most of the things we are dead sure we cannot do.”	stoicism
7,139	“Our efforts do not owe us our desired outcomes.”	stoicism
7,547	“Life is yet to produce someone who is loved by or important to everyone.”	stoicism
6,918	“You are more likely to feel an inner disturbance if you set your heart and mind on something that is beyond your control to obtain.”	stoicism
7,445	“Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”	stoicism
7,421	“Один из главных принципов стоицизма состоит в умении различать вещи, которыми мы можем управлять и которыми — нет.”	stoicism
7,628	“Sine philosophia nemo intrepide potest vivere, nemo secure.”	stoicism
7,257	“Tell us your secrets.’ [23] ‘I refuse, as this is up to me.’ ‘I will put you in chains.’ ‘What’s that you say, friend? It’s only my leg you will chain, not even God can conquer my will.’ [24] ‘I will throw you into prison.’ ‘Correction – it is my body you will throw there.’ ‘I will behead you.’ ‘Well, when did I ever claim that mine was the only neck that couldn’t be severed?”	stoicism
7,539	“Feeling sorry for our bodies ought to be the closest we get to feeling sorry for ourselves.”	stoicism
7,143	“It takes a great degree of tolerance, and that of humility, to strongly disagree with someone, and not express your disagreement.”	stoicism
7,550	“The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.”	stoicism
7,462	“You can be hurt, not by what others think of you, but by what you think of what they think or you think they think of you.”	stoicism
6,929	“No action in the human context will succeed without reference to the divine, nor vice versa.”	stoicism
7,120	“We live life passively whenever we are not practicing mindfulness.”	stoicism
7,057	“Philosophy neither rejects anyone nor chooses anyone; it shines for all.”	stoicism
7,057	“Philosophy neither rejects anyone nor chooses anyone; it shines for all.”	stoicism
7,661	“[Philosophers] have come to envy the philologist and the mathematician, and they have taken over all the inessential elements in those studies—with the result that they know more about devoting care and attention to their speech than about devoting such attention to their lives.”	stoicism
6,995	“It's only when you're breathing your last that the way you've spent your time will become apparent, "I accept the terms, and feel no dread of the coming judgment.”	stoicism
7,292	“Some of our problems came to us; some, we went to them.”	stoicism
7,291	“However one may interpret this culturally, the upshot is the same: people carry within them a great number of wishes to which they react passively and which they hide. Stoicism, in our day, is not strength to overcome wishes, but to hide them. To a patient who, let us say, is interminably rationalizing and justifying this and that, balancing one thing against another as though life were a tremendous market place where all the business is done on paper and tickertape and there are never any goods , I sometimes have the inclination in psychotherapy to shout out, “Don't you ever want anything?” But I don't cry out, for it is not difficult to see that on some level the patient does want a good deal; the trouble is he has formulated and reformulated it, until it is the “rattling of dry bones,” as Eliot puts it. Tendencies have become endemic in our culture for our denial of wishes to be rationalized and accepted with the belief that this denial of the wish will result in its being fulfilled. And whether the reader would disagree with me on this or that detail, our psychological problem is the same: it is necessary for us to help the patient achieve some emotional viability and honesty by bringing out his wishes and his capacity to wish. This is not the end of therapy but it is an essential starting point.”	stoicism
7,552	“Expectation is the only seed of disappointment.”	stoicism
7,042	“Most people usually talk faster than they think.”	stoicism
7,171	“A family member is initially loved out of expectation … and is eventually loved out of habit.”	stoicism
6,952	“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”	stoicism
7,434	“Once you start learning from your problems, you stop wishing for a life without problems.”	stoicism
7,257	“Tell us your secrets.’ [23] ‘I refuse, as this is up to me.’ ‘I will put you in chains.’ ‘What’s that you say, friend? It’s only my leg you will chain, not even God can conquer my will.’ [24] ‘I will throw you into prison.’ ‘Correction – it is my body you will throw there.’ ‘I will behead you.’ ‘Well, when did I ever claim that mine was the only neck that couldn’t be severed?”	stoicism
7,596	“When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience lasts; for you'll have more mastery over your inner harmony by continually returning to it.”	stoicism
7,615	“True affluence is not needing anything.”	stoicism
6,893	“The world might rage around, yet within the Stoic’s mind, a tranquil sea prevails. The Stoic remains anchored, not carried away by the torrents of distraction, but rather cultivating a steadfast presence in each fleeting moment. In this ever-passing instant, the Stoic exercises his virtue, sharpens his wisdom, and wields his actions.”	stoicism
7,395	“We make life even more painful by having expectations and preferences.”	stoicism
7,559	“Death is the release of an organism from the prison of life.”	stoicism
7,183	“We cannot be too young to die.”	stoicism
7,494	“Telling some people not to waste time is a waste of time.”	stoicism
6,941	“The events that may befall you tomorrow are not new or novel, and the emotions that you will experience have been felt by countless others throughout the crashing torrent of time. They survived. Why can’t you?”	stoicism
7,057	“Philosophy neither rejects anyone nor chooses anyone; it shines for all.”	stoicism
7,204	“The mind, unconquered by violent passions, is a citadel, for a man has no fortress more impregnable in which to find refuge and remain safe forever.”	stoicism
7,455	“The older you are, and the faster you walk, the crazier you look.”	stoicism
6,882	“Stand up straight, not straightened The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”	stoicism
7,657	“She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.”	stoicism
6,891	“Life will question you in its vital moments. It's up to you in how you'll respond. You might have drifted from the principles that you once followed. You could've indulged in vices or fallen into unthinking habits. It's your choice to start your practice again. Remind yourself of what's valuable and then act. You still have a choice to be brave, temperate, and wise.”	stoicism
7,313	“A fool’s plans are entertainment for the wise.”	stoicism
6,991	“Do you consider yourself a nobody? What weight does that label even have? It’s a silly label. As silly as the label 'somebody'. Silly and non-adhesive. First off, to be thought of as a nobody someone has to be thinking of you in the first place. Second, being a so-called 'nobody' doesn’t make you irrelevant. We are all relevant to somebody else but unfortunately, we can lose sight of our most germane and important relationships when we chase the approval of people we don’t even know.”	stoicism
7,400	“What good does it do you to go overseas, to move from city to city? If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”	stoicism
6,808	“Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.”	stoicism
7,266	“Halleck came from people who regarded a slight change of facial expression as adequate to convey the pain of a severed limb.”	stoicism
7,549	“It would be foolish to be stoical all the time, you'd wear yourself out for nothing”	stoicism
7,002	“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”	stoicism
7,299	“When conversing, some people regularly stop talking, not to listen, but to rest their tongues.”	stoicism
6,918	“You are more likely to feel an inner disturbance if you set your heart and mind on something that is beyond your control to obtain.”	stoicism
7,166	“You cannot really not care about what others think about you, yet care about whether or not they know that you do not care about what they think about you.”	stoicism
7,430	“The bigger the family, the bigger the number of corpses it owes life.”	stoicism
7,407	“[W]e can have the things we need for our ordinary purposes if we will only be content with what the earth has made available on its surface.”	stoicism
7,673	“I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.”	stoicism
7,071	“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”	stoicism
7,129	“Life cannot, not even for a millisecond, remain exactly how it is.”	stoicism
7,007	“Draconus staggered up. 'Pearl, my friend, I have come to say goodbye. And to tell you I am sorry.' 'What saddens you?' the demon asked. 'I am sorry, Pearl, for all of this. For Dragnipur. For the horror forged by my own hands. It was fitting, was it not, that the weapon claimed its maker? I think, yes, it was. It was.' He paused, and then brought both hands up to his face. For a moment it seemed he would begin clawing his beard from the skin beneath it. Instead, the shackled hands fell away, down, dragged by the weight of the chains. 'I too am sorry,' said Pearl. 'To see the end of this.' 'What?' 'So many enemies, all here and not one by choice. Enemies, and yet working together for so long. It was a wonderous thing, was it not, Draconus? When necessity forced each hand to clasp, to work as one. A wonderous thing.' The warrior stared at the demon. He seemed unable to speak.”	stoicism
7,416	“To lose someone you love is something you'll regard as the hardest of all blows to bear, while all the time this will be as silly as crying because the leaves fall from the beautiful trees that add to the charm of your home. [...] At one moment chance will carry off one of them, at another moment another; but the falling of the leaves is not difficult to bear, since they grow again, and it is no more hard to bear the loss of those whom you love and regard as brightening your existence; for even if they do not grow again they are replaced. "But their successors will never be quite the same." No, and neither will you.”	stoicism
7,432	“Growth is often the parent or the child of pain.”	stoicism
7,005	“Consider above all else whether you've advanced in philosophy or just in actual years.”	stoicism
7,505	“[T]reat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors.”	stoicism
6,972	“Let us too overcome all things, with our reward consisting not in any wreath or garland, not in trumpet-calls for silence for the ceremonial proclamation of our name, but in moral worth, in strength of spirit, in a peace that is won for ever once in any contest fortune has been utterly defeated.”	stoicism
7,025	“Nature is content with few things, and with a very little of these.”	stoicism
7,367	“Meditation can make an hour feel slightly longer … than a sneeze.”	stoicism
7,431	“For a delight in bustling about is not industry - it is only the restless energy of a hunted mind. And the state of mind that looks on all activity as tiresome is not true repose, but a spineless inertia.”	stoicism
7,004	“The ability to do without a kingdom is a kingdom.”	stoicism
7,114	“Does anything genuinely beautiful need supplementing? No more than justice does- or truth, or kindness, or humility. Are any of those improved by being praised? Or damaged by contempt? Is an emerald suddenly flawed if no one admires it?”	stoicism
7,303	“A desired thing often comes with seeds of at least one desire.”	stoicism
7,629	“But Moominmamma was quite unperturbed. "Well, well!" she said, "it seems to me that our guests are having a very good time." "I hope so," replied Moominpappa. "Pass me a banana, please dear.”	stoicism
7,566	“Life is a game we are all bound to lose.”	stoicism
7,550	“The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.”	stoicism
7,235	“Being patient with a fool requires one not to be one.”	stoicism
7,539	“Feeling sorry for our bodies ought to be the closest we get to feeling sorry for ourselves.”	stoicism
7,310	“No man is good by chance. Virtue is something which must be learned.”	stoicism
6,982	“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waist a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficient generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death's final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we know it was passing”	stoicism
7,232	“A thing named, misnamed, unnamed, or renamed is still itself.”	stoicism
7,205	“There is no correlation between the degree to which you are confident that you are right and the chances of you not being wrong.”	stoicism
7,052	“We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst. For thee, oppressèd king, I am cast down. Myself could else outfrown false Fortune’s frown.”	stoicism
7,331	“The fact that we are all going to die prevents the vast majority of people from being driven insane by the fact that they are going to die.”	stoicism
7,376	“Happiness is an inevitable result of embracing, and unhappiness that of rejecting, what is.”	stoicism
7,232	“A thing named, misnamed, unnamed, or renamed is still itself.”	stoicism
7,176	“Pleasure and pain are often each other’s seed.”	stoicism
6,857	“Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasure-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things that may not be taken from you.”	stoicism
6,813	“It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.”	stoicism
7,230	“To chase pleasure is to be chased by pain.”	stoicism
7,047	“Count yourself fortunate when you are able to live in a manner open to the public—when walls are there for shelter, not for concealment. For as a rule we think we have walls around us not to protect us but to afford greater privacy to our misdeeds.”	stoicism
7,452	“We often do not, not because we cannot, but because we think so.”	stoicism
7,190	“Whenever an animal is overworking, a human is to blame.”	stoicism
7,470	“I’ve let people’s opinions, my own self judgements and many negative things take this life away from me. No more!”	stoicism
7,122	“Mental suffering is an inferno started, and kept burning, by thinking; and its smoke sometimes leaves one crying.”	stoicism
7,465	“The mind is inclined to zoom in on your problem, or few problems, to an extend that you cannot see your many blessings.”	stoicism
7,284	“You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.”	stoicism
7,472	“Not even once has life or the weather complained about a human being.”	stoicism
7,399	“That you are about to bury or have just buried your loved one does not make you and your loved ones immortal for a while.”	stoicism
6,788	“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.”	stoicism

7,386

“Истории о великих деяниях не только вдохновляют нас, не только будят в нас все лучшее и усиливают нашу веру в человека, но и напоминают о том, насколько проще и безопаснее стала сегодня жизнь для большинства из нас. Разве требуется так уж много мужества, чтобы противостоять боссу, который плохо обошелся с вашим коллегой? Худшее, что с вами может случиться, — это увольнение. Но ведь вас не будут пытать и не посадят в одиночную камеру, как Стокдейла, так неужели трудно вести себя достойно и честно в повседневной жизни? Если на то пошло, сохранить свою честь можно и не прибегая к жестокому самоубийству, как Катон. Только представьте, насколько лучше стал бы наш мир, если бы все мы каждый день проявляли чуть больше мужества, мудрости, умеренности и боролись против несправедливости.”

stoicism

6,938

“To the Stoics, a good life meant living in accordance with nature, both universal nature – accepting the world for what it is, not resisting it because we think it should be different – and our own nature as human beings.”

stoicism

6,986

“The best way to have people laugh with you and not at you, is to get ahead of them and laugh at yourself first.”

stoicism

7,147

“You can be too old to live, but not too young to die.”

stoicism

6,888

“Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself. What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of your observing it in yourself. Avoid fear, too, though fear is only the consequence of every sort of falsehood. Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love.”

stoicism

6,959

“[I]f you gape after externals, you must of necessity ramble up and down in obedience to the will of your master. And who is the master? He who has the power over the things which you seek to gain or try to avoid.”

stoicism

7,536

“We have never tried to do most of the things we are dead sure we cannot do.”

stoicism

7,139

“Our efforts do not owe us our desired outcomes.”

stoicism

7,547

“Life is yet to produce someone who is loved by or important to everyone.”

stoicism

6,918

“You are more likely to feel an inner disturbance if you set your heart and mind on something that is beyond your control to obtain.”

stoicism

7,445

“Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”

stoicism

7,421

“Один из главных принципов стоицизма состоит в умении различать вещи, которыми мы можем управлять и которыми — нет.”

stoicism

7,628

“Sine philosophia nemo intrepide potest vivere, nemo secure.”

stoicism

7,257

“Tell us your secrets.’ [23] ‘I refuse, as this is up to me.’ ‘I will put you in chains.’ ‘What’s that you say, friend? It’s only my leg you will chain, not even God can conquer my will.’ [24] ‘I will throw you into prison.’ ‘Correction – it is my body you will throw there.’ ‘I will behead you.’ ‘Well, when did I ever claim that mine was the only neck that couldn’t be severed?”

stoicism

7,539

“Feeling sorry for our bodies ought to be the closest we get to feeling sorry for ourselves.”

stoicism

7,143

“It takes a great degree of tolerance, and that of humility, to strongly disagree with someone, and not express your disagreement.”

stoicism

7,550

“The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.”

stoicism

7,462

“You can be hurt, not by what others think of you, but by what you think of what they think or you think they think of you.”

stoicism

6,929

“No action in the human context will succeed without reference to the divine, nor vice versa.”

stoicism

7,120

“We live life passively whenever we are not practicing mindfulness.”

stoicism

7,057

“Philosophy neither rejects anyone nor chooses anyone; it shines for all.”

stoicism

7,057

“Philosophy neither rejects anyone nor chooses anyone; it shines for all.”

stoicism

7,661

“[Philosophers] have come to envy the philologist and the mathematician, and they have taken over all the inessential elements in those studies—with the result that they know more about devoting care and attention to their speech than about devoting such attention to their lives.”

stoicism

6,995

“It's only when you're breathing your last that the way you've spent your time will become apparent, "I accept the terms, and feel no dread of the coming judgment.”

stoicism

7,292

“Some of our problems came to us; some, we went to them.”

stoicism

7,291

“However one may interpret this culturally, the upshot is the same: people carry within them a great number of wishes to which they react passively and which they hide. Stoicism, in our day, is not strength to overcome wishes, but to hide them. To a patient who, let us say, is interminably rationalizing and justifying this and that, balancing one thing against another as though life were a tremendous market place where all the business is done on paper and tickertape and there are never any goods , I sometimes have the inclination in psychotherapy to shout out, “Don't you ever want anything?” But I don't cry out, for it is not difficult to see that on some level the patient does want a good deal; the trouble is he has formulated and reformulated it, until it is the “rattling of dry bones,” as Eliot puts it. Tendencies have become endemic in our culture for our denial of wishes to be rationalized and accepted with the belief that this denial of the wish will result in its being fulfilled. And whether the reader would disagree with me on this or that detail, our psychological problem is the same: it is necessary for us to help the patient achieve some emotional viability and honesty by bringing out his wishes and his capacity to wish. This is not the end of therapy but it is an essential starting point.”

stoicism

7,552

“Expectation is the only seed of disappointment.”

stoicism

7,042

“Most people usually talk faster than they think.”

stoicism

7,171

“A family member is initially loved out of expectation … and is eventually loved out of habit.”

stoicism

6,952

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”

stoicism

7,434

“Once you start learning from your problems, you stop wishing for a life without problems.”

stoicism

7,257

“Tell us your secrets.’ [23] ‘I refuse, as this is up to me.’ ‘I will put you in chains.’ ‘What’s that you say, friend? It’s only my leg you will chain, not even God can conquer my will.’ [24] ‘I will throw you into prison.’ ‘Correction – it is my body you will throw there.’ ‘I will behead you.’ ‘Well, when did I ever claim that mine was the only neck that couldn’t be severed?”

stoicism

7,596

“When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience lasts; for you'll have more mastery over your inner harmony by continually returning to it.”

stoicism

7,615

“True affluence is not needing anything.”

stoicism

6,893

“The world might rage around, yet within the Stoic’s mind, a tranquil sea prevails. The Stoic remains anchored, not carried away by the torrents of distraction, but rather cultivating a steadfast presence in each fleeting moment. In this ever-passing instant, the Stoic exercises his virtue, sharpens his wisdom, and wields his actions.”

stoicism

7,395

“We make life even more painful by having expectations and preferences.”

stoicism

7,559

“Death is the release of an organism from the prison of life.”

stoicism

7,183

“We cannot be too young to die.”

stoicism

7,494

“Telling some people not to waste time is a waste of time.”

stoicism

6,941

“The events that may befall you tomorrow are not new or novel, and the emotions that you will experience have been felt by countless others throughout the crashing torrent of time. They survived. Why can’t you?”

stoicism

7,057

“Philosophy neither rejects anyone nor chooses anyone; it shines for all.”

stoicism

7,204

“The mind, unconquered by violent passions, is a citadel, for a man has no fortress more impregnable in which to find refuge and remain safe forever.”

stoicism

7,455

“The older you are, and the faster you walk, the crazier you look.”

stoicism

6,882

“Stand up straight, not straightened The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”

stoicism

7,657

“She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.”

stoicism

6,891

“Life will question you in its vital moments. It's up to you in how you'll respond. You might have drifted from the principles that you once followed. You could've indulged in vices or fallen into unthinking habits. It's your choice to start your practice again. Remind yourself of what's valuable and then act. You still have a choice to be brave, temperate, and wise.”

stoicism

7,313

“A fool’s plans are entertainment for the wise.”

stoicism

6,991

“Do you consider yourself a nobody? What weight does that label even have? It’s a silly label. As silly as the label 'somebody'. Silly and non-adhesive. First off, to be thought of as a nobody someone has to be thinking of you in the first place. Second, being a so-called 'nobody' doesn’t make you irrelevant. We are all relevant to somebody else but unfortunately, we can lose sight of our most germane and important relationships when we chase the approval of people we don’t even know.”

stoicism

7,400

“What good does it do you to go overseas, to move from city to city? If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”

stoicism

6,808

“Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.”

stoicism

7,266

“Halleck came from people who regarded a slight change of facial expression as adequate to convey the pain of a severed limb.”

stoicism

7,549

“It would be foolish to be stoical all the time, you'd wear yourself out for nothing”

stoicism

7,002

“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”

stoicism

7,299

“When conversing, some people regularly stop talking, not to listen, but to rest their tongues.”

stoicism

6,918

“You are more likely to feel an inner disturbance if you set your heart and mind on something that is beyond your control to obtain.”

stoicism

7,166

“You cannot really not care about what others think about you, yet care about whether or not they know that you do not care about what they think about you.”

stoicism

7,430

“The bigger the family, the bigger the number of corpses it owes life.”

stoicism

7,407

“[W]e can have the things we need for our ordinary purposes if we will only be content with what the earth has made available on its surface.”

stoicism

7,673

“I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.”

stoicism

7,071

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”

stoicism

7,129

“Life cannot, not even for a millisecond, remain exactly how it is.”

stoicism

7,007

“Draconus staggered up. 'Pearl, my friend, I have come to say goodbye. And to tell you I am sorry.' 'What saddens you?' the demon asked. 'I am sorry, Pearl, for all of this. For Dragnipur. For the horror forged by my own hands. It was fitting, was it not, that the weapon claimed its maker? I think, yes, it was. It was.' He paused, and then brought both hands up to his face. For a moment it seemed he would begin clawing his beard from the skin beneath it. Instead, the shackled hands fell away, down, dragged by the weight of the chains. 'I too am sorry,' said Pearl. 'To see the end of this.' 'What?' 'So many enemies, all here and not one by choice. Enemies, and yet working together for so long. It was a wonderous thing, was it not, Draconus? When necessity forced each hand to clasp, to work as one. A wonderous thing.' The warrior stared at the demon. He seemed unable to speak.”

stoicism

7,416

“To lose someone you love is something you'll regard as the hardest of all blows to bear, while all the time this will be as silly as crying because the leaves fall from the beautiful trees that add to the charm of your home. [...] At one moment chance will carry off one of them, at another moment another; but the falling of the leaves is not difficult to bear, since they grow again, and it is no more hard to bear the loss of those whom you love and regard as brightening your existence; for even if they do not grow again they are replaced. "But their successors will never be quite the same." No, and neither will you.”

stoicism

7,432

“Growth is often the parent or the child of pain.”

stoicism

7,005

“Consider above all else whether you've advanced in philosophy or just in actual years.”

stoicism

7,505

“[T]reat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors.”

stoicism

6,972

“Let us too overcome all things, with our reward consisting not in any wreath or garland, not in trumpet-calls for silence for the ceremonial proclamation of our name, but in moral worth, in strength of spirit, in a peace that is won for ever once in any contest fortune has been utterly defeated.”

stoicism

7,025

“Nature is content with few things, and with a very little of these.”

stoicism

7,367

“Meditation can make an hour feel slightly longer … than a sneeze.”

stoicism

7,431

“For a delight in bustling about is not industry - it is only the restless energy of a hunted mind. And the state of mind that looks on all activity as tiresome is not true repose, but a spineless inertia.”

stoicism

7,004

“The ability to do without a kingdom is a kingdom.”

stoicism

7,114

“Does anything genuinely beautiful need supplementing? No more than justice does- or truth, or kindness, or humility. Are any of those improved by being praised? Or damaged by contempt? Is an emerald suddenly flawed if no one admires it?”

stoicism

7,303

“A desired thing often comes with seeds of at least one desire.”

stoicism

7,629

“But Moominmamma was quite unperturbed. "Well, well!" she said, "it seems to me that our guests are having a very good time." "I hope so," replied Moominpappa. "Pass me a banana, please dear.”

stoicism

7,566

“Life is a game we are all bound to lose.”

stoicism

7,550

“The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.”

stoicism

7,235

“Being patient with a fool requires one not to be one.”

stoicism

7,539

“Feeling sorry for our bodies ought to be the closest we get to feeling sorry for ourselves.”

stoicism

7,310

“No man is good by chance. Virtue is something which must be learned.”

stoicism

6,982

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waist a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficient generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death's final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we know it was passing”

stoicism

7,232

“A thing named, misnamed, unnamed, or renamed is still itself.”

stoicism

7,205

“There is no correlation between the degree to which you are confident that you are right and the chances of you not being wrong.”

stoicism

7,052

“We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst. For thee, oppressèd king, I am cast down. Myself could else outfrown false Fortune’s frown.”

stoicism

7,331

“The fact that we are all going to die prevents the vast majority of people from being driven insane by the fact that they are going to die.”

stoicism

7,376

“Happiness is an inevitable result of embracing, and unhappiness that of rejecting, what is.”

stoicism

7,232

“A thing named, misnamed, unnamed, or renamed is still itself.”

stoicism

7,176

“Pleasure and pain are often each other’s seed.”

stoicism

6,857

“Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasure-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things that may not be taken from you.”

stoicism

6,813

“It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.”

stoicism

7,230

“To chase pleasure is to be chased by pain.”

stoicism

7,047

“Count yourself fortunate when you are able to live in a manner open to the public—when walls are there for shelter, not for concealment. For as a rule we think we have walls around us not to protect us but to afford greater privacy to our misdeeds.”

stoicism

7,452

“We often do not, not because we cannot, but because we think so.”

stoicism

7,190

“Whenever an animal is overworking, a human is to blame.”

stoicism

7,470

“I’ve let people’s opinions, my own self judgements and many negative things take this life away from me. No more!”

stoicism

7,122

“Mental suffering is an inferno started, and kept burning, by thinking; and its smoke sometimes leaves one crying.”

stoicism

7,465

“The mind is inclined to zoom in on your problem, or few problems, to an extend that you cannot see your many blessings.”

stoicism

7,284

“You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.”

stoicism

7,472

“Not even once has life or the weather complained about a human being.”

stoicism

7,399

“That you are about to bury or have just buried your loved one does not make you and your loved ones immortal for a while.”

stoicism

6,788

“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.”

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