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6,835	“The stoics divided philosophy into three branches: logic, physics, and ethics. Logic covered not only the rules of correct argumentation, but also grammar, linguistics, rhetorical theory, epistemology, and all the tools that might be needed to discover the truth of any matter. Physics was concerned with the nature of the world and the laws that govern it, and so included ontology and theology as well as what we would recognize as physics, astronomy, and cosmology. Ethics was concerned with how to achieve happiness, or how to live a fulfilled and flourishing life as a human being. A stoic sage was supposed to be fully expert in all three aspects.”	stoicism
7,252	“The most fruitful breaks are often those we are or were forced to take by life.”	stoicism
7,017	“Though you should be going to live three thousand years, and as many times ten thousand years, still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses. The longest and shortest are thus brought to the same. For the present is the same to all, though that which perishes is not the same; and so that which is lost appears to be a mere moment. For a man cannot lose either the past or the future, for what a man has not, how can any one take this from him?”	stoicism
6,925	“Perchance some day the memory of this sorrow Will even bring delight”	stoicism
6,816	“The first and most important field of philosophy is the application of principles such as “Do not lie.” Next come the proofs, such as why we should not lie. The third field supports and articulates the proofs, by asking, for example, “How does this prove it? What exactly is a proof, what is logical inference, what is contradiction, what is truth, what is falsehood?” Thus, the third field is necessary because of the second, and the second because of the first. The most important, though, the one that should occupy most of our time, is the first. But we do just the opposite. We are preoccupied with the third field and give that all our attention, passing the first by altogether. The result is that we lie – but have no difficulty proving why we shouldn’t.”	stoicism
7,223	“To live is to owe life to die.”	stoicism
6,970	“Don’t let the force of an impression when it first hits you knock you off your feet; just say to it, “Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test.” ~ Epictetus”	stoicism
7,429	“Zeno is our friend but truth is an even greater friend.”	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
6,770	“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”	stoicism
7,528	“An action is at least a billion times less difficult to choose than a reaction.”	stoicism
7,624	“There are two things that must be rooted out in human beings - arrogant opinion and mistrust. Arrogant opinion expects that there is nothing further needed, and mistrust assumes that under the torrent of circumstance there can be no happiness.”	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
6,960	“The part of life we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.”	stoicism
7,348	“Some of those whose existence you wish could end now do not even know about your existence.”	stoicism
7,285	“A truth whispered is not less truthful. And an untruth shouted is not less untruthful.”	stoicism
7,211	“Having to make a difficult or important decision is sometimes more agonizing than not having a choice.”	stoicism
7,584	“Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery.”	stoicism
7,575	“The worst that can happen to anyone will happen to everyone.”	stoicism
6,912	“A good story has no end, it continues being a part of reality well after its last point by forming a union with us.”	stoicism
6,960	“The part of life we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.”	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
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
7,082	“The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.”	stoicism
7,398	“Our mind can be in heaven while our body is in hell. And vice versa.”	stoicism
7,071	“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”	stoicism
7,423	“Life is divided into three periods, past, present and future. Of these, the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. For this last is the one over which Fortune has lost her power, which cannot be brought back to anyone’s control. But this is what preoccupied people lose: for they have no time to look back at their past, and even if they did, it is not pleasant to recall activities they are ashamed of.”	stoicism
7,229	“Pleasure is often felt through the tongue or genitals as an attempt to distract oneself from the pain one is feeling through the heart.”	stoicism
7,170	“You can wear an expensive watch and still be late.”	stoicism
7,320	“Education almost always leaves stupidity intact.”	stoicism
7,162	“Hunger is by far the best spice.”	stoicism
7,636	“All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.”	stoicism
7,533	“Most people are like all stomachs: they cannot remain satisfied for a long time.”	stoicism
7,614	“It does good also to take walks out of doors, that our spirits may be raised and refreshed by the open air and fresh breeze: sometimes we gain strength by driving in a carriage, by travel, by change of air, or by social meals and a more generous allowance of wine.”	stoicism
6,976	“Take pride in your courage for it leads to difficult situations which, once overcome, leave you more than what you were before. Only in the most extreme of pressures does carbon become diamond”	stoicism
6,979	“Milo's Way- A Haiku Strength sought in small steps, Like Milo's calf on shoulders, Grow with steady will.”	stoicism
6,884	“In your conversation, don’t dwell at excessive length on your own deeds or adventures. Just because you enjoy recounting your exploits doesn’t mean that others derive the same pleasure from hearing about them.”	stoicism
7,506	“The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.”	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
7,020	“To act wise isn’t to act wisely.”	stoicism
6,988	“It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word - on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.”	stoicism
7,176	“Pleasure and pain are often each other’s seed.”	stoicism
7,212	“Wishing is usually an indirect way of feeling sorry for yourself.”	stoicism
7,372	“Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don’t talk how persons ought to eat, but eat as you ought. For remember that in this manner Socrates also universally avoided all ostentation. And when persons came to him and desired to be recommended by him to philosophers, he took and recommended them, so well did he bear being overlooked. So that if ever any talk should happen among the unlearned concerning philosophic theorems, be you, for the most part, silent. For there is great danger in immediately throwing out what you have not digested. And, if anyone tells you that you know nothing, and you are not nettled at it, then you may be sure that you have begun your business. For sheep don’t throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk. Thus, therefore, do you likewise not show theorems to the unlearned, but the actions produced by them after they have been digested.”	stoicism
7,123	“We played the main role in the doing of some things we didn’t do, by saying they couldn’t or wouldn’t be done.”	stoicism
7,657	“She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.”	stoicism
7,327	“Engineers can prove that a bumblebee, with its heavy body and little bitty wings, can't fly. But nobody tells the bumblebees ... and they fly just fine.”	stoicism
7,319	“The universe is change, and life mere opinion.”	stoicism
6,911	“The reaction that art produces in you has more to do with you than it does with art.”	stoicism
7,381	“It takes, not cowardice, but courage to kill yourself.”	stoicism
7,270	“See? You're using the stoic glacier method." "Remind me, what's the stoic glacier method?" "It's the slow process of shaping someone's behavior by force of one's own personal stoicism.”	stoicism
7,609	“The Sage desires only one thing, virtue, and he is cautious about only one thing, vice. He is the same in every circumstance because what is most important lies within him, and not with external events, which are constantly changing.”	stoicism
7,471	“Increasing the strength of our minds is the only way to reduce the difficulty of life.”	stoicism
7,316	“Some people deny the existence of God in order to give themselves credit for their successes. Some accept His existence in order to deny responsibility for their failures.”	stoicism
7,428	“Стоик стремится к добродетели, совершенству и живет по принципу: «Делать все настолько хорошо, насколько это возможно», он осознает моральный аспект всех своих действий.”	stoicism
7,311	“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”	stoicism
7,615	“True affluence is not needing anything.”	stoicism
7,276	“Like a problem, time is nothing but a shadow of thought.”	stoicism
7,365	“If you are pained by any external tiling, it is not this things that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now".”	stoicism
7,650	“And here lies the essential difference between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.”	stoicism
7,050	“Many millions of people secretly feel caged by employment, marriage, and/or parenthood.”	stoicism
7,193	“Our caring about what others think about us is one of the pillars of the economy.”	stoicism
7,625	“These...xistential qualms you suffer, they just mean you're truly human. I aked how I might remedy them. "You don´t remedy them. You live thru them.”	stoicism
7,039	“At the heart of stoicism lay the desire to disappoint oneself before someone else had the chance to do so. Stoicism was a crude defense against the dangers of the affections of others, dangers that would take more endurance than a life in the desert to be able to face.”	stoicism
6,923	“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it. It's unfortunate that this has happened. No. It's fortunate that this has happened and I've remained unharmed by it - not shattered by the present or frightened of the future. It could have happened to anyone. But not everyone could have remained unharmed by it. Why treat the one as a misfortune rather than the other as fortunate? Can you really call something a misfortune that doesn't violate human nature? Or do you think something that's not against nature's will can violate it? But you know what its will is. Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness, and all the other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfil itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.”	stoicism
7,383	“Но Эпиктет призывал мужественно смотреть в лицо реальности, а реальность такова, что все люди смертны и никто из них не принадлежит нам и не останется с нами навечно. [...] Признав эту реальность, мы понимаем, что должны наслаждаться любовью наших близких и общением с ними, когда это возможно, а не принимать их как должное: ведь неминуемо настанет день, когда «установленное время года» пройдет.”	stoicism
7,496	“Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.”	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
6,852	“Man, consider first what the matter is (which you propose to do), then your own nature also, what it is able to bear. If you are a wrestler, look at your shoulders, your thighs, your loins: for different men are naturally formed for different things.”	stoicism
7,391	“For our happiness or unhappiness, we have only what we think about something or someone to thank or blame.”	stoicism
7,668	“The Greeks not only face facts. They have no desire to escape from them.”	stoicism
7,195	“Disappointment is an unwanted—but invited—guest.”	stoicism
7,044	“Press on and make all your actions and words cohere and fit with one another, all struck from the same mold.”	stoicism
7,482	“We are generally pleased the most by compliments that are insincere.”	stoicism
7,053	“The first sign of a settled mind is that it can stay in one place and spend time with itself.” – Seneca, Letter 2.1”	stoicism
6,942	“There will come a day when i will be able to resist and control my emotions... And when that day comes, i will know that i truly made it.”	stoicism
7,096	“Just as chickens wake up and scream, being reborn is the polar opposite. You are blinded by bliss and numb to such pain.”	stoicism
7,487	“Once you make a decision and then act on it, you have actually fulfilled the object of the game. This will probably surprise you, but what happens next in the hand after you act is not important. It does not matter what your opponents do next and it's immaterial whether or not you win the hand. The most important thing is that you understand why you're making the play and what goal you're trying to accomplish.”	stoicism
6,832	“Maximum remedium est irae mora.”	stoicism
6,842	“Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.”	stoicism
7,532	“One man’s bad day is another man’s good night.”	stoicism
7,405	“Not just that every day more of our life is used up and less and less of it is left, but this too: if we live longer, can we be sure our mind will still be up to understanding the world—to the contemplation that aims at divine and human knowledge? If our mind starts to wander, we’ll still go on breathing, go on eating, imagining things, feeling urges and so on. But getting the most out of ourselves, calculating where our duty lies, analyzing what we hear and see, deciding whether it’s time to call it quits—all the things you need a healthy mind for . . . all those are gone. So we need to hurry. Not just because we move daily closer to death but also because our understanding—our grasp of the world—may be gone before we get there.”	stoicism
7,144	“He never exhibited rudeness, lost control of himself, or turned violent. No one ever saw him sweat. Everything was to be approached logically and with due consideration, in a calm and orderly fashion but decisively, and with no loose ends.”	stoicism
7,402	“For those who follow nature everything is easy and straightforward, whereas for those who fight against her life is just like rowing against the stream.”	stoicism
7,277	“A still person has the ability to stop, look at a news story or another person’s arguments, and ask objective questions without emotional overreaction or assumptions of ill intent. One is centered, rational, and respected; the other is frantic, unhappy, and intellectually stagnant. Don’t be the latter.”	stoicism
7,556	“You cannot continue to hate someone without repeatedly wasting, on them, some of your precious time and mental energy.”	stoicism
7,167	“Be like a headland: the Waves beat against it continuously, but it stands fast and around it the boiling water dies down.”	stoicism
6,889	“...what will you do when you are dead? "My name will remain." Write it on a stone, and it will remain. But come, what remembrance of you will there be beyond Nicopolis? "But I shall wear a crown of gold." If you desire a crown at all, take a crown of roses and put it on, for it will be more elegant in appearance.”	stoicism
7,206	“We often mistake assuming or hoping for knowing.”	stoicism
7,598	“When others inspire us, they tend to do so through the clear expression of these sketchy, adumbrated thoughts we ourselves have known but never had the perspicacity for formulate with certainty.”	stoicism
7,445	“Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”	stoicism
7,234	“Life sometimes shows kindheartedness by not handing us the success or fame we want, until we have matured enough to be able to handle it.”	stoicism
7,055	“Prosperity is a restless thing; it drives itself to distraction. It addles the brain, and not always in the same way, for it goads people in different directions—some toward power, others toward self-indulgence. Some are puffed up by it, others unmanned and made entirely feeble.”	stoicism
7,034	“Small talk is one of the most common symptoms of small-mindedness.”	stoicism
7,089	“Conformity eats away individuality.”	stoicism
7,442	“Running is a form of practiced stoicism. It means teaching your brain and body to be biochemically comfortable in a state of disrepair.”	stoicism
7,145	“The world is maintained by change- in the elements and in the things they compose. That should be enough for you; treat it as an axiom.”	stoicism
7,589	“That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.”	stoicism
6,858	“Lives such as yours—how true it is!—though they should exceed a thousand years, will contract into the smallest span: but those vices of yours will swallow up any amount of time. This length of time you have, that reason prolongs, however swift nature makes its sojourn, is bound to pass quickly through your fingers; for you do not grasp it, or seek to hold on to it, or try to delay the passing of the swiftest thing of all, but allow it to depart, as if it were something surplus to requirement and easily replaced.”	stoicism
7,423	“Life is divided into three periods, past, present and future. Of these, the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. For this last is the one over which Fortune has lost her power, which cannot be brought back to anyone’s control. But this is what preoccupied people lose: for they have no time to look back at their past, and even if they did, it is not pleasant to recall activities they are ashamed of.”	stoicism

6,835

“The stoics divided philosophy into three branches: logic, physics, and ethics. Logic covered not only the rules of correct argumentation, but also grammar, linguistics, rhetorical theory, epistemology, and all the tools that might be needed to discover the truth of any matter. Physics was concerned with the nature of the world and the laws that govern it, and so included ontology and theology as well as what we would recognize as physics, astronomy, and cosmology. Ethics was concerned with how to achieve happiness, or how to live a fulfilled and flourishing life as a human being. A stoic sage was supposed to be fully expert in all three aspects.”

stoicism

7,252

“The most fruitful breaks are often those we are or were forced to take by life.”

stoicism

7,017

“Though you should be going to live three thousand years, and as many times ten thousand years, still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses. The longest and shortest are thus brought to the same. For the present is the same to all, though that which perishes is not the same; and so that which is lost appears to be a mere moment. For a man cannot lose either the past or the future, for what a man has not, how can any one take this from him?”

stoicism

6,925

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

stoicism

6,816

“The first and most important field of philosophy is the application of principles such as “Do not lie.” Next come the proofs, such as why we should not lie. The third field supports and articulates the proofs, by asking, for example, “How does this prove it? What exactly is a proof, what is logical inference, what is contradiction, what is truth, what is falsehood?” Thus, the third field is necessary because of the second, and the second because of the first. The most important, though, the one that should occupy most of our time, is the first. But we do just the opposite. We are preoccupied with the third field and give that all our attention, passing the first by altogether. The result is that we lie – but have no difficulty proving why we shouldn’t.”

stoicism

7,223

“To live is to owe life to die.”

stoicism

6,970

“Don’t let the force of an impression when it first hits you knock you off your feet; just say to it, “Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test.” ~ Epictetus”

stoicism

7,429

“Zeno is our friend but truth is an even greater friend.”

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

6,770

“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”

stoicism

7,528

“An action is at least a billion times less difficult to choose than a reaction.”

stoicism

7,624

“There are two things that must be rooted out in human beings - arrogant opinion and mistrust. Arrogant opinion expects that there is nothing further needed, and mistrust assumes that under the torrent of circumstance there can be no happiness.”

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

6,960

“The part of life we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.”

stoicism

7,348

“Some of those whose existence you wish could end now do not even know about your existence.”

stoicism

7,285

“A truth whispered is not less truthful. And an untruth shouted is not less untruthful.”

stoicism

7,211

“Having to make a difficult or important decision is sometimes more agonizing than not having a choice.”

stoicism

7,584

“Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery.”

stoicism

7,575

“The worst that can happen to anyone will happen to everyone.”

stoicism

6,912

“A good story has no end, it continues being a part of reality well after its last point by forming a union with us.”

stoicism

6,960

“The part of life we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.”

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

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

7,082

“The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.”

stoicism

7,398

“Our mind can be in heaven while our body is in hell. And vice versa.”

stoicism

7,071

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”

stoicism

7,423

“Life is divided into three periods, past, present and future. Of these, the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. For this last is the one over which Fortune has lost her power, which cannot be brought back to anyone’s control. But this is what preoccupied people lose: for they have no time to look back at their past, and even if they did, it is not pleasant to recall activities they are ashamed of.”

stoicism

7,229

“Pleasure is often felt through the tongue or genitals as an attempt to distract oneself from the pain one is feeling through the heart.”

stoicism

7,170

“You can wear an expensive watch and still be late.”

stoicism

7,320

“Education almost always leaves stupidity intact.”

stoicism

7,162

“Hunger is by far the best spice.”

stoicism

7,636

“All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.”

stoicism

7,533

“Most people are like all stomachs: they cannot remain satisfied for a long time.”

stoicism

7,614

“It does good also to take walks out of doors, that our spirits may be raised and refreshed by the open air and fresh breeze: sometimes we gain strength by driving in a carriage, by travel, by change of air, or by social meals and a more generous allowance of wine.”

stoicism

6,976

“Take pride in your courage for it leads to difficult situations which, once overcome, leave you more than what you were before. Only in the most extreme of pressures does carbon become diamond”

stoicism

6,979

“Milo's Way- A Haiku Strength sought in small steps, Like Milo's calf on shoulders, Grow with steady will.”

stoicism

6,884

“In your conversation, don’t dwell at excessive length on your own deeds or adventures. Just because you enjoy recounting your exploits doesn’t mean that others derive the same pleasure from hearing about them.”

stoicism

7,506

“The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.”

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

7,020

“To act wise isn’t to act wisely.”

stoicism

6,988

“It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word - on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.”

stoicism

7,176

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

stoicism

7,212

“Wishing is usually an indirect way of feeling sorry for yourself.”

stoicism

7,372

“Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don’t talk how persons ought to eat, but eat as you ought. For remember that in this manner Socrates also universally avoided all ostentation. And when persons came to him and desired to be recommended by him to philosophers, he took and recommended them, so well did he bear being overlooked. So that if ever any talk should happen among the unlearned concerning philosophic theorems, be you, for the most part, silent. For there is great danger in immediately throwing out what you have not digested. And, if anyone tells you that you know nothing, and you are not nettled at it, then you may be sure that you have begun your business. For sheep don’t throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk. Thus, therefore, do you likewise not show theorems to the unlearned, but the actions produced by them after they have been digested.”

stoicism

7,123

“We played the main role in the doing of some things we didn’t do, by saying they couldn’t or wouldn’t be done.”

stoicism

7,657

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

stoicism

7,327

“Engineers can prove that a bumblebee, with its heavy body and little bitty wings, can't fly. But nobody tells the bumblebees ... and they fly just fine.”

stoicism

7,319

“The universe is change, and life mere opinion.”

stoicism

6,911

“The reaction that art produces in you has more to do with you than it does with art.”

stoicism

7,381

“It takes, not cowardice, but courage to kill yourself.”

stoicism

7,270

“See? You're using the stoic glacier method." "Remind me, what's the stoic glacier method?" "It's the slow process of shaping someone's behavior by force of one's own personal stoicism.”

stoicism

7,609

“The Sage desires only one thing, virtue, and he is cautious about only one thing, vice. He is the same in every circumstance because what is most important lies within him, and not with external events, which are constantly changing.”

stoicism

7,471

“Increasing the strength of our minds is the only way to reduce the difficulty of life.”

stoicism

7,316

“Some people deny the existence of God in order to give themselves credit for their successes. Some accept His existence in order to deny responsibility for their failures.”

stoicism

7,428

“Стоик стремится к добродетели, совершенству и живет по принципу: «Делать все настолько хорошо, насколько это возможно», он осознает моральный аспект всех своих действий.”

stoicism

7,311

“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”

stoicism

7,615

“True affluence is not needing anything.”

stoicism

7,276

“Like a problem, time is nothing but a shadow of thought.”

stoicism

7,365

“If you are pained by any external tiling, it is not this things that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now".”

stoicism

7,650

“And here lies the essential difference between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.”

stoicism

7,050

“Many millions of people secretly feel caged by employment, marriage, and/or parenthood.”

stoicism

7,193

“Our caring about what others think about us is one of the pillars of the economy.”

stoicism

7,625

“These...xistential qualms you suffer, they just mean you're truly human. I aked how I might remedy them. "You don´t remedy them. You live thru them.”

stoicism

7,039

“At the heart of stoicism lay the desire to disappoint oneself before someone else had the chance to do so. Stoicism was a crude defense against the dangers of the affections of others, dangers that would take more endurance than a life in the desert to be able to face.”

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6,923

“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it. It's unfortunate that this has happened. No. It's fortunate that this has happened and I've remained unharmed by it - not shattered by the present or frightened of the future. It could have happened to anyone. But not everyone could have remained unharmed by it. Why treat the one as a misfortune rather than the other as fortunate? Can you really call something a misfortune that doesn't violate human nature? Or do you think something that's not against nature's will can violate it? But you know what its will is. Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness, and all the other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfil itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.”

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7,383

“Но Эпиктет призывал мужественно смотреть в лицо реальности, а реальность такова, что все люди смертны и никто из них не принадлежит нам и не останется с нами навечно. [...] Признав эту реальность, мы понимаем, что должны наслаждаться любовью наших близких и общением с ними, когда это возможно, а не принимать их как должное: ведь неминуемо настанет день, когда «установленное время года» пройдет.”

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7,496

“Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.”

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

6,852

“Man, consider first what the matter is (which you propose to do), then your own nature also, what it is able to bear. If you are a wrestler, look at your shoulders, your thighs, your loins: for different men are naturally formed for different things.”

stoicism

7,391

“For our happiness or unhappiness, we have only what we think about something or someone to thank or blame.”

stoicism

7,668

“The Greeks not only face facts. They have no desire to escape from them.”

stoicism

7,195

“Disappointment is an unwanted—but invited—guest.”

stoicism

7,044

“Press on and make all your actions and words cohere and fit with one another, all struck from the same mold.”

stoicism

7,482

“We are generally pleased the most by compliments that are insincere.”

stoicism

7,053

“The first sign of a settled mind is that it can stay in one place and spend time with itself.” – Seneca, Letter 2.1”

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6,942

“There will come a day when i will be able to resist and control my emotions... And when that day comes, i will know that i truly made it.”

stoicism

7,096

“Just as chickens wake up and scream, being reborn is the polar opposite. You are blinded by bliss and numb to such pain.”

stoicism

7,487

“Once you make a decision and then act on it, you have actually fulfilled the object of the game. This will probably surprise you, but what happens next in the hand after you act is not important. It does not matter what your opponents do next and it's immaterial whether or not you win the hand. The most important thing is that you understand why you're making the play and what goal you're trying to accomplish.”

stoicism

6,832

“Maximum remedium est irae mora.”

stoicism

6,842

“Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.”

stoicism

7,532

“One man’s bad day is another man’s good night.”

stoicism

7,405

“Not just that every day more of our life is used up and less and less of it is left, but this too: if we live longer, can we be sure our mind will still be up to understanding the world—to the contemplation that aims at divine and human knowledge? If our mind starts to wander, we’ll still go on breathing, go on eating, imagining things, feeling urges and so on. But getting the most out of ourselves, calculating where our duty lies, analyzing what we hear and see, deciding whether it’s time to call it quits—all the things you need a healthy mind for . . . all those are gone. So we need to hurry. Not just because we move daily closer to death but also because our understanding—our grasp of the world—may be gone before we get there.”

stoicism

7,144

“He never exhibited rudeness, lost control of himself, or turned violent. No one ever saw him sweat. Everything was to be approached logically and with due consideration, in a calm and orderly fashion but decisively, and with no loose ends.”

stoicism

7,402

“For those who follow nature everything is easy and straightforward, whereas for those who fight against her life is just like rowing against the stream.”

stoicism

7,277

“A still person has the ability to stop, look at a news story or another person’s arguments, and ask objective questions without emotional overreaction or assumptions of ill intent. One is centered, rational, and respected; the other is frantic, unhappy, and intellectually stagnant. Don’t be the latter.”

stoicism

7,556

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

stoicism

7,167

“Be like a headland: the Waves beat against it continuously, but it stands fast and around it the boiling water dies down.”

stoicism

6,889

“...what will you do when you are dead? "My name will remain." Write it on a stone, and it will remain. But come, what remembrance of you will there be beyond Nicopolis? "But I shall wear a crown of gold." If you desire a crown at all, take a crown of roses and put it on, for it will be more elegant in appearance.”

stoicism

7,206

“We often mistake assuming or hoping for knowing.”

stoicism

7,598

“When others inspire us, they tend to do so through the clear expression of these sketchy, adumbrated thoughts we ourselves have known but never had the perspicacity for formulate with certainty.”

stoicism

7,445

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

stoicism

7,234

“Life sometimes shows kindheartedness by not handing us the success or fame we want, until we have matured enough to be able to handle it.”

stoicism

7,055

“Prosperity is a restless thing; it drives itself to distraction. It addles the brain, and not always in the same way, for it goads people in different directions—some toward power, others toward self-indulgence. Some are puffed up by it, others unmanned and made entirely feeble.”

stoicism

7,034

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

stoicism

7,089

“Conformity eats away individuality.”

stoicism

7,442

“Running is a form of practiced stoicism. It means teaching your brain and body to be biochemically comfortable in a state of disrepair.”

stoicism

7,145

“The world is maintained by change- in the elements and in the things they compose. That should be enough for you; treat it as an axiom.”

stoicism

7,589

“That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.”

stoicism

6,858

“Lives such as yours—how true it is!—though they should exceed a thousand years, will contract into the smallest span: but those vices of yours will swallow up any amount of time. This length of time you have, that reason prolongs, however swift nature makes its sojourn, is bound to pass quickly through your fingers; for you do not grasp it, or seek to hold on to it, or try to delay the passing of the swiftest thing of all, but allow it to depart, as if it were something surplus to requirement and easily replaced.”

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“Life is divided into three periods, past, present and future. Of these, the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. For this last is the one over which Fortune has lost her power, which cannot be brought back to anyone’s control. But this is what preoccupied people lose: for they have no time to look back at their past, and even if they did, it is not pleasant to recall activities they are ashamed of.”

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