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7,644	“When you run up against someone else’s shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shamelessness possible? No. Then don’t ask the impossible. There have to be shameless people in the world. This is one of them. The same for someone vicious or untrustworthy, or with any other defect. Remembering that the whole world class has to exist will make you more tolerant of its members.”	stoicism
6,809	“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”	stoicism
7,255	“If you haven’t learned something From periods of suffering, If you haven’t wrung the juices Of your own pain and drank them For your own nourishment, You have wasted your experience And missed the chance To expand the capacity For being stronger the next time That these seasons arrive at your door.”	stoicism
6,989	“Don’t take things too personally. Critique, failures, unwarranted advice - take it to mind, not to heart. What you hear out of the mouths of others are opinions and perspectives. It’s often worth listening to opinions and perspectives, but it’s not a requisite that you take them on board.”	stoicism
6,898	“The Stoic approach is the lighthouse that guides us amidst the tempest, leading us to the land of dreams crafted in the forge of the unyielding present.”	stoicism
7,289	“...but if you think that only which is your own to be your own, and if you think that what is another’s, as it really is, belongs to another, no man will ever compel you, no man will hinder you, you will never blame any man, you will accuse no man, you will do nothing involuntarily (against your will), no man will harm you, you will have no enemy, for you will not suffer any harm.”	stoicism
7,382	“Но в этом-то и состоит сила стоицизма: признание фундаментальной истины, что мы можем контролировать только свое поведение, но не его результаты (не говоря уже о результатах поведения других людей), дает нам способность невозмутимо принимать происходящее. Это происходит, потому что мы знаем: сделано все возможное и все зависящее от нас в данных обстоятельствах.”	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
7,457	“A fool is a man who disregards legacy.”	stoicism
7,388	“When someone wrongs you, ask yourself: What made him do it? Once you understand his concept of good and evil, you'll feel sorry for him and cease to either be amazed or angry. If his concept is similar to yours, then you will be bound to forgive him since you would have acted as he did in similar circumstances. But if you do not share his ideas of good and evil, then you should find it even easier to overlook the wrongs of someone who is confused and in a moral muddle".”	stoicism
7,382	“Но в этом-то и состоит сила стоицизма: признание фундаментальной истины, что мы можем контролировать только свое поведение, но не его результаты (не говоря уже о результатах поведения других людей), дает нам способность невозмутимо принимать происходящее. Это происходит, потому что мы знаем: сделано все возможное и все зависящее от нас в данных обстоятельствах.”	stoicism
7,029	“Man, if you are anything, both walk alone and talk to yourself, and do not hide yourself in the chorus. Examine a little at last, look around, stir yourself up, that you may know who you are.”	stoicism
7,135	“We do things for others for ourselves.”	stoicism
7,527	“Meditation betters not only the mind but also the brain.”	stoicism
7,556	“You cannot continue to hate someone without repeatedly wasting, on them, some of your precious time and mental energy.”	stoicism
7,313	“A fool’s plans are entertainment for the wise.”	stoicism
7,418	“People prone to every fault they denounce are walking advertisements of the uselessness of their training. That kind of man can be of no more help to me as an instructor than a steersman who is seasick in a storm[...]. What good to me is a vomiting and stupefied helmsman? [...] What is needed is a steering hand, not talking.”	stoicism
7,293	“It is foolish to give up on yourself. And doubly so to do that before everyone has given up on you.”	stoicism
7,676	“Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive in respect of any that happen to befall himself.”	stoicism
7,583	“Sometimes, even to live is an act of courage.”	stoicism
7,656	“So the life of a philosopher extends widely: he is not confined by the same boundary as are others. He alone is free from the laws that limit the human race, and all ages serve him as though he were a god.”	stoicism
6,785	“What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.”	stoicism
6,898	“The Stoic approach is the lighthouse that guides us amidst the tempest, leading us to the land of dreams crafted in the forge of the unyielding present.”	stoicism
7,344	“Let Nature make whatever use she pleases of matter, which is her own: lets us be cheerful and brave in the face of all, and consider that nothing of our own perishes. What is the duty of a good man? To offer himself to fate.”	stoicism
6,878	“An open eye in the dark, will find light...”	stoicism
7,656	“So the life of a philosopher extends widely: he is not confined by the same boundary as are others. He alone is free from the laws that limit the human race, and all ages serve him as though he were a god.”	stoicism
7,302	“Sometimes you find yourself so grateful that a prayer of yours was not answered that you pray that it be ignored. Just in case it is on the waiting list of prayers to be answered.”	stoicism
7,439	“The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?”	stoicism
7,038	“Remember you will die but do brave deeds and endure”	stoicism
6,931	“The Iliad consists of nothing more than impressions and the use of impressions. An impression prompted Paris to carry off the wife of Menelaus, and an impression prompted Helen to go with him. If an impression, then, had prompted Menelaus to feel that it was a gain to be deprived of such a wife, what would have come about? Not only the Iliad would have been lost, but the Odyssey too!”	stoicism
7,029	“Man, if you are anything, both walk alone and talk to yourself, and do not hide yourself in the chorus. Examine a little at last, look around, stir yourself up, that you may know who you are.”	stoicism
6,871	“Ought not then this robber and this adulterer to be destroyed? By no means say so, but speak rather this way: This man who has been mistaken and deceived about the most important things, and blinded, not in the faculty of vision which distinguishes white and black, but in the faculty which distinguishes good and bad, should we destroy him? If you speak thus you will see how inhuman this is which you say, and that it is just as if you would say, Ought we not destroy this blind and deaf man?”	stoicism
7,275	“Education teaches us how to make a living, not how to live.”	stoicism
7,504	“Finding peace of mind usually demands that we lose some things and some people.”	stoicism
7,340	“Heartless’ is a label that is all too often wrongly given to someone who is rational by someone who is emotional.”	stoicism
7,016	“In a little while you too will close your eyes, and soon there will be others mourning the man who buries you.”	stoicism
7,409	“So the spirit must be trained to a realization and an acceptance of its lot. It must come to see that there is nothing fortune will shrink from[.] There's no ground for resentment in all this. We've entered into a world in which these are the terms life is lived on – if you're satisfied with that, submit to them, if you're not, get out, whatever way you please.”	stoicism
7,564	“Being in a hurry does not slow down time.”	stoicism
7,606	“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel of his philosophy, that we should bear in mind and distinguish what depends on us and what does not, and thus should not count on the latter at all. In this way we shall certainly remain free from all pain, suffering, and anxiety. Now what depends on us is the will alone, and here there gradually takes place a transition to a doctrine of virtue, since it is noticed that, as the external world that is independent of us determines good and bad fortune, so inner satisfaction or dissatisfaction with ourselves proceeds from the will. But later it was asked whether we should attribute the names bonum et malum to the two former or to the two latter. This was really arbitrary and a matter of choice, and made no difference. But yet the Stoics argued incessantly about this with the Peripatetics and Epicureans, and amused themselves with the inadmissible comparison of two wholly incommensurable quantities and with the contrary and paradoxical judgements arising therefrom, which they cast on one another. An interesting collection of these is afforded us from the Stoic side by the Paradoxa of Cicero." —from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Paye in two volumes: volume I, pp. 88-89”	stoicism
7,306	“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”	stoicism
6,900	“Yet the object of our focus is not to be chosen lightly. In the marketplace of ambitions, dreams are sold in all sizes and shapes. But true fulfillment and achievement do not lie in the mere attainment of goals, but rather in the pursuit of those that are truly worthy. A target, after all, gives direction to our arrow, but the archer’s glory lies not in merely hitting the target, but in striking one that demands skill and character.”	stoicism
7,122	“Mental suffering is an inferno started, and kept burning, by thinking; and its smoke sometimes leaves one crying.”	stoicism
6,965	“Thinking of departed friends is to me something sweet and mellow. For when I had them with me it was with the feeling that I was going to lose them, and now that I have lost them I keep the feeling that I have them with me still.”	stoicism
7,562	“Suffering adds spice to life.”	stoicism
7,435	“Detente particularmente en cada una de las acciones que haces y pregúntate si la muerte es terrible porque te priva de eso.”	stoicism
7,151	“Some real kings are drama queens.”	stoicism
7,414	“[W]hatever happens is never as serious as rumour makes it out to be.”	stoicism
6,996	“Which of us does not admire what Lycurgus the Spartan did? A young citizen had put out his eye, and been handed over to him by the people to be punished at his own discretion. Lycurgus abstained from all vengeance, but on the contrary instructed and made a good man of him. Producing him in public in the theatre, he said to the astonished Spartans: "I received this young man at your hands full of violence and wanton insolence; I restore him to you in his right mind and fit to serve his country.”	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
7,245	“Living is the outside of dying.”	stoicism
7,246	“You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.”	stoicism
7,034	“Small talk is one of the most common symptoms of small-mindedness.”	stoicism
7,141	“It is joyful to see someone who is hopeful in a situation that is hopeless.”	stoicism
7,255	“If you haven’t learned something From periods of suffering, If you haven’t wrung the juices Of your own pain and drank them For your own nourishment, You have wasted your experience And missed the chance To expand the capacity For being stronger the next time That these seasons arrive at your door.”	stoicism
7,203	“We are born old enough to die.”	stoicism
7,415	“[T]he man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet, will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing. The story is told that someone complained to Socrates that travelling abroad had never done him any good and received the reply: "What else can you expect, seeing that you always take yourself along with you when you go abroad?‟”	stoicism
6,980	“You are scared of dying - and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?”	stoicism
7,341	“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and how many problems it gives us.”	stoicism
7,146	“Some solutions are seeds of some problems.”	stoicism
7,164	“If you care about yourself at all, come to your own aid while there’s still time.”	stoicism
7,219	“Anxiety is the shadow of what we do not want to lose.”	stoicism
7,133	“Sometimes the only thing you can do is accept the fact that there is nothing you can do.”	stoicism
7,645	“There is, I assure you, a medical art for the soul. It is philosophy, whose aid need not be sought, as in bodily diseases, from outside ourselves. We must endeavor with all our resources and all our strength to become capable of doctoring ourselves.”	stoicism
7,226	“Death is freedom from life.”	stoicism
7,494	“Telling some people not to waste time is a waste of time.”	stoicism
7,497	“The man, though, whom you should admire and imitate is the one who finds it a joy to live and in spite of that is not reluctant to die.”	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
6,900	“Yet the object of our focus is not to be chosen lightly. In the marketplace of ambitions, dreams are sold in all sizes and shapes. But true fulfillment and achievement do not lie in the mere attainment of goals, but rather in the pursuit of those that are truly worthy. A target, after all, gives direction to our arrow, but the archer’s glory lies not in merely hitting the target, but in striking one that demands skill and character.”	stoicism
7,357	“The thing whose acquisition ‘made’ you happy need not be stolen, lost, or broken for ‘it’ to make you unhappy.”	stoicism
7,245	“Living is the outside of dying.”	stoicism
7,567	“Most people have given back to life the power to make themselves happy.”	stoicism
7,046	“Things we wouldn't be willing to pay for if it meant giving up our house for them, or some pleasant or productive estate, we are quite ready to obtain at the cost of anxiety, of danger, of losing our freedom, our decency, our time.”	stoicism
6,925	“Perchance some day the memory of this sorrow Will even bring delight”	stoicism
7,529	“The person you are mad at for being late could be dead.”	stoicism
6,987	“So - to the best of your ability - demonstrate your own guilt, conduct inquiries of your own into all the evidence against yourself. Play the part first of prosecutor, then of judge, and finally of pleader in mitigation. Be harsh with yourself at times.”	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
7,186	“One of the main goals and effects of stoicism is to stop an adult from being a crybaby.”	stoicism
7,444	“The weaker the desire to change, the further away from now is the moment from which we plan on changing.”	stoicism
7,461	“It is human to be angry, but childish to be controlled by anger.”	stoicism
7,315	“It is humbling to realize that what you hate (the most) about someone is actually what they love (the most) about themselves.”	stoicism
6,810	“You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, "What are your thinking about?" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.”	stoicism
7,076	“Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”	stoicism
7,107	“We cannot but obey the powers above us. Could I rage and roar as doth the sea She lies in, yet the end must be as ’tis.”	stoicism
7,083	“Avoid talking often and excessively about your accomplishments and dangers, for however much you enjoy recounting your dangers, it's not so pleasant for others to hear about your affairs.”	stoicism
6,844	“To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.”	stoicism
7,048	“Flattery looks very much like friendship, indeed not only resembles it but actually wins out against it. A person drinks it in with eager ears and takes it deeply to heart, delighted by the very qualities that make it dangerous.”	stoicism
6,945	“Rasa susah, khawtir, cemas karena peristiwa eksternal sebernarnya tidak datang dari peristiwa hidup itu sendiri, tetapi dari persepsi dan opini kita sendiri, dan sepenuhnya dibawah kendali kita.”	stoicism
7,665	“Quamquam scripsit artem rhetorieam Cleanthes, Chrysippus etiam, sed sic, ut si quis obmutescere concupierit, nihil aliud legere debeat.”	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
7,042	“Most people usually talk faster than they think.”	stoicism
7,606	“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel of his philosophy, that we should bear in mind and distinguish what depends on us and what does not, and thus should not count on the latter at all. In this way we shall certainly remain free from all pain, suffering, and anxiety. Now what depends on us is the will alone, and here there gradually takes place a transition to a doctrine of virtue, since it is noticed that, as the external world that is independent of us determines good and bad fortune, so inner satisfaction or dissatisfaction with ourselves proceeds from the will. But later it was asked whether we should attribute the names bonum et malum to the two former or to the two latter. This was really arbitrary and a matter of choice, and made no difference. But yet the Stoics argued incessantly about this with the Peripatetics and Epicureans, and amused themselves with the inadmissible comparison of two wholly incommensurable quantities and with the contrary and paradoxical judgements arising therefrom, which they cast on one another. An interesting collection of these is afforded us from the Stoic side by the Paradoxa of Cicero." —from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Paye in two volumes: volume I, pp. 88-89”	stoicism
7,389	“How was your day?’ ought to be ‘How did you look at your day?”	stoicism
7,420	“[T]he man who lives extravagantly wants his manner of living to be on everybody's lips as long as he is alive. He thinks he is wasting his time if he is not being talked about.”	stoicism
7,631	“Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends. Or perhaps especially to his friends, whose good opinion of him, he might feel, would not survive the revelations.”	stoicism
7,552	“Expectation is the only seed of disappointment.”	stoicism
7,628	“Sine philosophia nemo intrepide potest vivere, nemo secure.”	stoicism
7,058	“Even if you had a lot of life left to live, you would need to parcel out your time sparingly so as to have enough for necessities. As it is, with time in such short supply, what madness it is to learn things that are superfluous.”	stoicism
7,493	“Whereas a belief in an absurd world arises out of the fundamental disharmony of a person searching for meaning in an apparently meaninglessness universe, an existential nihilist displays impassive intellectual stoicism towards their eventual mortality while embracing a passionate artistic commitment to munity against the underlying syndrome of insignificance and confusion encasing life.”	stoicism
7,662	“Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits”	stoicism
7,041	“Fools act wise, not wisely.”	stoicism

7,644

“When you run up against someone else’s shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shamelessness possible? No. Then don’t ask the impossible. There have to be shameless people in the world. This is one of them. The same for someone vicious or untrustworthy, or with any other defect. Remembering that the whole world class has to exist will make you more tolerant of its members.”

stoicism

6,809

“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”

stoicism

7,255

“If you haven’t learned something From periods of suffering, If you haven’t wrung the juices Of your own pain and drank them For your own nourishment, You have wasted your experience And missed the chance To expand the capacity For being stronger the next time That these seasons arrive at your door.”

stoicism

6,989

“Don’t take things too personally. Critique, failures, unwarranted advice - take it to mind, not to heart. What you hear out of the mouths of others are opinions and perspectives. It’s often worth listening to opinions and perspectives, but it’s not a requisite that you take them on board.”

stoicism

6,898

“The Stoic approach is the lighthouse that guides us amidst the tempest, leading us to the land of dreams crafted in the forge of the unyielding present.”

stoicism

7,289

“...but if you think that only which is your own to be your own, and if you think that what is another’s, as it really is, belongs to another, no man will ever compel you, no man will hinder you, you will never blame any man, you will accuse no man, you will do nothing involuntarily (against your will), no man will harm you, you will have no enemy, for you will not suffer any harm.”

stoicism

7,382

“Но в этом-то и состоит сила стоицизма: признание фундаментальной истины, что мы можем контролировать только свое поведение, но не его результаты (не говоря уже о результатах поведения других людей), дает нам способность невозмутимо принимать происходящее. Это происходит, потому что мы знаем: сделано все возможное и все зависящее от нас в данных обстоятельствах.”

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

7,457

“A fool is a man who disregards legacy.”

stoicism

7,388

“When someone wrongs you, ask yourself: What made him do it? Once you understand his concept of good and evil, you'll feel sorry for him and cease to either be amazed or angry. If his concept is similar to yours, then you will be bound to forgive him since you would have acted as he did in similar circumstances. But if you do not share his ideas of good and evil, then you should find it even easier to overlook the wrongs of someone who is confused and in a moral muddle".”

stoicism

7,382

“Но в этом-то и состоит сила стоицизма: признание фундаментальной истины, что мы можем контролировать только свое поведение, но не его результаты (не говоря уже о результатах поведения других людей), дает нам способность невозмутимо принимать происходящее. Это происходит, потому что мы знаем: сделано все возможное и все зависящее от нас в данных обстоятельствах.”

stoicism

7,029

“Man, if you are anything, both walk alone and talk to yourself, and do not hide yourself in the chorus. Examine a little at last, look around, stir yourself up, that you may know who you are.”

stoicism

7,135

“We do things for others for ourselves.”

stoicism

7,527

“Meditation betters not only the mind but also the brain.”

stoicism

7,556

“You cannot continue to hate someone without repeatedly wasting, on them, some of your precious time and mental energy.”

stoicism

7,313

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

stoicism

7,418

“People prone to every fault they denounce are walking advertisements of the uselessness of their training. That kind of man can be of no more help to me as an instructor than a steersman who is seasick in a storm[...]. What good to me is a vomiting and stupefied helmsman? [...] What is needed is a steering hand, not talking.”

stoicism

7,293

“It is foolish to give up on yourself. And doubly so to do that before everyone has given up on you.”

stoicism

7,676

“Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive in respect of any that happen to befall himself.”

stoicism

7,583

“Sometimes, even to live is an act of courage.”

stoicism

7,656

“So the life of a philosopher extends widely: he is not confined by the same boundary as are others. He alone is free from the laws that limit the human race, and all ages serve him as though he were a god.”

stoicism

6,785

“What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.”

stoicism

6,898

“The Stoic approach is the lighthouse that guides us amidst the tempest, leading us to the land of dreams crafted in the forge of the unyielding present.”

stoicism

7,344

“Let Nature make whatever use she pleases of matter, which is her own: lets us be cheerful and brave in the face of all, and consider that nothing of our own perishes. What is the duty of a good man? To offer himself to fate.”

stoicism

6,878

“An open eye in the dark, will find light...”

stoicism

7,656

“So the life of a philosopher extends widely: he is not confined by the same boundary as are others. He alone is free from the laws that limit the human race, and all ages serve him as though he were a god.”

stoicism

7,302

“Sometimes you find yourself so grateful that a prayer of yours was not answered that you pray that it be ignored. Just in case it is on the waiting list of prayers to be answered.”

stoicism

7,439

“The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?”

stoicism

7,038

“Remember you will die but do brave deeds and endure”

stoicism

6,931

“The Iliad consists of nothing more than impressions and the use of impressions. An impression prompted Paris to carry off the wife of Menelaus, and an impression prompted Helen to go with him. If an impression, then, had prompted Menelaus to feel that it was a gain to be deprived of such a wife, what would have come about? Not only the Iliad would have been lost, but the Odyssey too!”

stoicism

7,029

“Man, if you are anything, both walk alone and talk to yourself, and do not hide yourself in the chorus. Examine a little at last, look around, stir yourself up, that you may know who you are.”

stoicism

6,871

“Ought not then this robber and this adulterer to be destroyed? By no means say so, but speak rather this way: This man who has been mistaken and deceived about the most important things, and blinded, not in the faculty of vision which distinguishes white and black, but in the faculty which distinguishes good and bad, should we destroy him? If you speak thus you will see how inhuman this is which you say, and that it is just as if you would say, Ought we not destroy this blind and deaf man?”

stoicism

7,275

“Education teaches us how to make a living, not how to live.”

stoicism

7,504

“Finding peace of mind usually demands that we lose some things and some people.”

stoicism

7,340

“Heartless’ is a label that is all too often wrongly given to someone who is rational by someone who is emotional.”

stoicism

7,016

“In a little while you too will close your eyes, and soon there will be others mourning the man who buries you.”

stoicism

7,409

“So the spirit must be trained to a realization and an acceptance of its lot. It must come to see that there is nothing fortune will shrink from[.] There's no ground for resentment in all this. We've entered into a world in which these are the terms life is lived on – if you're satisfied with that, submit to them, if you're not, get out, whatever way you please.”

stoicism

7,564

“Being in a hurry does not slow down time.”

stoicism

7,606

“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel of his philosophy, that we should bear in mind and distinguish what depends on us and what does not, and thus should not count on the latter at all. In this way we shall certainly remain free from all pain, suffering, and anxiety. Now what depends on us is the will alone, and here there gradually takes place a transition to a doctrine of virtue, since it is noticed that, as the external world that is independent of us determines good and bad fortune, so inner satisfaction or dissatisfaction with ourselves proceeds from the will. But later it was asked whether we should attribute the names *bonum et malum* to the two former or to the two latter. This was really arbitrary and a matter of choice, and made no difference. But yet the Stoics argued incessantly about this with the Peripatetics and Epicureans, and amused themselves with the inadmissible comparison of two wholly incommensurable quantities and with the contrary and paradoxical judgements arising therefrom, which they cast on one another. An interesting collection of these is afforded us from the Stoic side by the *Paradoxa* of Cicero." —from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Paye in two volumes: volume I, pp. 88-89”

stoicism

7,306

“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”

stoicism

6,900

“Yet the object of our focus is not to be chosen lightly. In the marketplace of ambitions, dreams are sold in all sizes and shapes. But true fulfillment and achievement do not lie in the mere attainment of goals, but rather in the pursuit of those that are truly worthy. A target, after all, gives direction to our arrow, but the archer’s glory lies not in merely hitting the target, but in striking one that demands skill and character.”

stoicism

7,122

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

stoicism

6,965

“Thinking of departed friends is to me something sweet and mellow. For when I had them with me it was with the feeling that I was going to lose them, and now that I have lost them I keep the feeling that I have them with me still.”

stoicism

7,562

“Suffering adds spice to life.”

stoicism

7,435

“Detente particularmente en cada una de las acciones que haces y pregúntate si la muerte es terrible porque te priva de eso.”

stoicism

7,151

“Some real kings are drama queens.”

stoicism

7,414

“[W]hatever happens is never as serious as rumour makes it out to be.”

stoicism

6,996

“Which of us does not admire what Lycurgus the Spartan did? A young citizen had put out his eye, and been handed over to him by the people to be punished at his own discretion. Lycurgus abstained from all vengeance, but on the contrary instructed and made a good man of him. Producing him in public in the theatre, he said to the astonished Spartans: "I received this young man at your hands full of violence and wanton insolence; I restore him to you in his right mind and fit to serve his country.”

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

7,245

“Living is the outside of dying.”

stoicism

7,246

“You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.”

stoicism

7,034

“Small talk is one of the most common symptoms of small-mindedness.”

stoicism

7,141

“It is joyful to see someone who is hopeful in a situation that is hopeless.”

stoicism

7,255

“If you haven’t learned something From periods of suffering, If you haven’t wrung the juices Of your own pain and drank them For your own nourishment, You have wasted your experience And missed the chance To expand the capacity For being stronger the next time That these seasons arrive at your door.”

stoicism

7,203

“We are born old enough to die.”

stoicism

7,415

“[T]he man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet, will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing. The story is told that someone complained to Socrates that travelling abroad had never done him any good and received the reply: "What else can you expect, seeing that you always take yourself along with you when you go abroad?‟”

stoicism

6,980

“You are scared of dying - and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?”

stoicism

7,341

“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and how many problems it gives us.”

stoicism

7,146

“Some solutions are seeds of some problems.”

stoicism

7,164

“If you care about yourself at all, come to your own aid while there’s still time.”

stoicism

7,219

“Anxiety is the shadow of what we do not want to lose.”

stoicism

7,133

“Sometimes the only thing you can do is accept the fact that there is nothing you can do.”

stoicism

7,645

“There is, I assure you, a medical art for the soul. It is philosophy, whose aid need not be sought, as in bodily diseases, from outside ourselves. We must endeavor with all our resources and all our strength to become capable of doctoring ourselves.”

stoicism

7,226

“Death is freedom from life.”

stoicism

7,494

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

stoicism

7,497

“The man, though, whom you should admire and imitate is the one who finds it a joy to live and in spite of that is not reluctant to die.”

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

6,900

“Yet the object of our focus is not to be chosen lightly. In the marketplace of ambitions, dreams are sold in all sizes and shapes. But true fulfillment and achievement do not lie in the mere attainment of goals, but rather in the pursuit of those that are truly worthy. A target, after all, gives direction to our arrow, but the archer’s glory lies not in merely hitting the target, but in striking one that demands skill and character.”

stoicism

7,357

“The thing whose acquisition ‘made’ you happy need not be stolen, lost, or broken for ‘it’ to make you unhappy.”

stoicism

7,245

“Living is the outside of dying.”

stoicism

7,567

“Most people have given back to life the power to make themselves happy.”

stoicism

7,046

“Things we wouldn't be willing to pay for if it meant giving up our house for them, or some pleasant or productive estate, we are quite ready to obtain at the cost of anxiety, of danger, of losing our freedom, our decency, our time.”

stoicism

6,925

“Perchance some day the memory of this sorrow Will even bring delight”

stoicism

7,529

“The person you are mad at for being late could be dead.”

stoicism

6,987

“So - to the best of your ability - demonstrate your own guilt, conduct inquiries of your own into all the evidence against yourself. Play the part first of prosecutor, then of judge, and finally of pleader in mitigation. Be harsh with yourself at times.”

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

7,186

“One of the main goals and effects of stoicism is to stop an adult from being a crybaby.”

stoicism

7,444

“The weaker the desire to change, the further away from now is the moment from which we plan on changing.”

stoicism

7,461

“It is human to be angry, but childish to be controlled by anger.”

stoicism

7,315

“It is humbling to realize that what you hate (the most) about someone is actually what they love (the most) about themselves.”

stoicism

6,810

“You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, "What are your thinking about?" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.”

stoicism

7,076

“Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”

stoicism

7,107

“We cannot but obey the powers above us. Could I rage and roar as doth the sea She lies in, yet the end must be as ’tis.”

stoicism

7,083

“Avoid talking often and excessively about your accomplishments and dangers, for however much you enjoy recounting your dangers, it's not so pleasant for others to hear about your affairs.”

stoicism

6,844

“To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.”

stoicism

7,048

“Flattery looks very much like friendship, indeed not only resembles it but actually wins out against it. A person drinks it in with eager ears and takes it deeply to heart, delighted by the very qualities that make it dangerous.”

stoicism

6,945

“Rasa susah, khawtir, cemas karena peristiwa eksternal sebernarnya tidak datang dari peristiwa hidup itu sendiri, tetapi dari persepsi dan opini kita sendiri, dan sepenuhnya dibawah kendali kita.”

stoicism

7,665

“Quamquam scripsit artem rhetorieam Cleanthes, Chrysippus etiam, sed sic, ut si quis obmutescere concupierit, nihil aliud legere debeat.”

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

7,042

“Most people usually talk faster than they think.”

stoicism

7,606

“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel of his philosophy, that we should bear in mind and distinguish what depends on us and what does not, and thus should not count on the latter at all. In this way we shall certainly remain free from all pain, suffering, and anxiety. Now what depends on us is the will alone, and here there gradually takes place a transition to a doctrine of virtue, since it is noticed that, as the external world that is independent of us determines good and bad fortune, so inner satisfaction or dissatisfaction with ourselves proceeds from the will. But later it was asked whether we should attribute the names *bonum et malum* to the two former or to the two latter. This was really arbitrary and a matter of choice, and made no difference. But yet the Stoics argued incessantly about this with the Peripatetics and Epicureans, and amused themselves with the inadmissible comparison of two wholly incommensurable quantities and with the contrary and paradoxical judgements arising therefrom, which they cast on one another. An interesting collection of these is afforded us from the Stoic side by the *Paradoxa* of Cicero." —from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Paye in two volumes: volume I, pp. 88-89”

stoicism

7,389

“How was your day?’ ought to be ‘How did you look at your day?”

stoicism

7,420

“[T]he man who lives extravagantly wants his manner of living to be on everybody's lips as long as he is alive. He thinks he is wasting his time if he is not being talked about.”

stoicism

7,631

“Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends. Or perhaps especially to his friends, whose good opinion of him, he might feel, would not survive the revelations.”

stoicism

7,552

“Expectation is the only seed of disappointment.”

stoicism

7,628

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

stoicism

7,058

“Even if you had a lot of life left to live, you would need to parcel out your time sparingly so as to have enough for necessities. As it is, with time in such short supply, what madness it is to learn things that are superfluous.”

stoicism

7,493

“Whereas a belief in an absurd world arises out of the fundamental disharmony of a person searching for meaning in an apparently meaninglessness universe, an existential nihilist displays impassive intellectual stoicism towards their eventual mortality while embracing a passionate artistic commitment to munity against the underlying syndrome of insignificance and confusion encasing life.”

stoicism

7,662

“Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits”

stoicism

7,041

“Fools act wise, not wisely.”

stoicism