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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
7,590	“You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole cosmos, to consider everlasting time, to think of the rapid change in the parts of each thing, of how short it is from birth until dissolution, and how the void before birth and that after dissolution are equally infinite.”	stoicism
7,508	“There is a correlation between how hard life seems to us and how easy we expected it to be.”	stoicism
7,103	“But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.”	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
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
7,477	“A man whose mind has completely left childhood behind would not be surprised if he were to walk in on his wife having sex with her father … or with his mother.”	stoicism
6,837	“All Hellenistic schools seem to define [wisdom] in approximately the same terms: first and foremost, as a state of perfect peace of mind. From this viewpoint, philosophy appears as a remedy for human worries, anguish, and misery brought about, for the Cynics, by social constraints and conventions; for the Epicureans, by the quest for false pleasures; for the Stoics, by the pursuit of pleasure and egoistic self-interest; and for the Skeptics, by false opinions. Whether or not they laid claim to the Socratic heritage, all Hellenistic philosophers agreed with Socrates that human beings are plunged in misery, anguish, and evil because they exist in ignorance. Evil is to be found not within things, but in the value judgments with people bring to bear upon things. People can therefore be cured of their ills only if they are persuaded to change their value judgments, and in this sense all these philosophies wanted to be therapeutic.”	stoicism
7,545	“It is impossible to trip and fall while walking slowly.”	stoicism
7,283	“For some reason, there is this façade that life should be full of happiness and without its suffering. Which, actually makes us suffer even more. Because when we get sad or something bad happens, we do not only feel bad about the thing itself but we also feel bad because our life is not the way it is supposed to be. Not realizing suffering and sadness is just a part of life and they are inevitable.”	stoicism
7,642	“And here lies the essential 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
7,406	“We should not use philosophy like a herbal remedy, to be discarded when we're through. Rather, we must allow philosophy to remain with us, continually guarding our judgements throughout life, forming part of our daily regimen, like eating a nutritious diet or taking phisical exercise.”	stoicism
7,391	“For our happiness or unhappiness, we have only what we think about something or someone to thank or blame.”	stoicism
7,367	“Meditation can make an hour feel slightly longer … than a sneeze.”	stoicism
7,401	“In order to protect ourselves we must live like doctors and be continually treating ourselves with reason.”	stoicism
6,896	“Distractions adorn themselves in the grandeur of the immediate, urgent, and superficial, dazzling our senses and demanding our attention. They leap into the spotlight, shouting loudly to drown the quiet callings of our deepest intentions.”	stoicism
7,024	“What right hast thou to talk of ill of Fortune whilst keeping all Fortune's better gifts?”	stoicism
7,464	“When pain comes, it must not derail you from your set virtues. If it does, you have failed to practice your virtues by going with the hype of pain.”	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
7,246	“You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.”	stoicism
6,831	“I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.”	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
7,201	“The vast majority of people are each a puppet that is forever pulled in this or that direction, or pushed into this or that action, by things such as public opinion and an emotion.”	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
7,037	“I encouraged them to bear up against all evils, and if we must perish, to die in our own cause, and not weakly distrust the providence of the Almighty, by giving ourselves up to despair. I reasoned with them, and told them that we would not die sooner by keeping up our hopes; that the dreadful sacrifices and privations we endured were to preserve us from death, and were not to be put in competition with the price which we set upon our lives, and their value to our families: it was, besides, unmanly to repine at what neither admitted of alleviation nor cure; and withal, that it was our solemn duty to recognise in our calamities an overruling divinity, by whose mercy we might be suddenly snatched from peril, and to rely upon him alone, ‘Who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb?”	stoicism
6,804	“From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.”	stoicism
7,548	“They who always expect the worst are almost always pleasantly surprised.”	stoicism
7,345	“An accident is often caused by an attempt to prevent one.”	stoicism
7,263	“Často sa dopúšťa bezprávia aj ten, kto nič nerobí, nielen ten, kto niečo robí.”	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
7,238	“A long life is a curse if you have a short temper.”	stoicism
7,536	“We have never tried to do most of the things we are dead sure we cannot do.”	stoicism
7,430	“The bigger the family, the bigger the number of corpses it owes life.”	stoicism
7,094	“It is doubly foolish to underuse what you have overpaid for.”	stoicism
7,073	“Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.”	stoicism
7,045	“If ever you want to find out whether anything has been achieved, observe whether your intentions are the same today as they were yesterday. A change of intention shows that the mind is at sea, drifting here and there as carried by the wind.”	stoicism
7,638	“At the bar on the Favoritenstrasse, Julius the policeman talked to us about dignity, evolution, the great Darwin and the great Nietzsche. I translated so that my good friend Ulises could understand what he was saying, although I didn’t understand any of it. The prayer of the bones, said Julius. The yearning for health. The virtue of danger. The tenacity of the forgotten. Bravo, said my good friend Ulises. Bravo, said everyone else. The limits of memory. The wisdom of plants. The eye of parasites. The agility of the earth. The merit of the soldier. The cunning of the giant. The hole of the will. Magnificent, said my good friend Ulises in German. Extraordinary.”	stoicism
7,453	“We're never unhappy until we remember why we're supposed to be unhappy.”	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
7,214	“Developing the extremely rare attitude of not minding how life is happening is a billion times better than prolonging your life, even if by a trillion years.”	stoicism
7,674	“There was no sign of Plato, and I was told later that he had gone to live in his Republic , where he was cheerfully submitting to his own Laws . [...] None of the Stoics were present. Rumour had it that they were still clambering up the steep hill of Virtue [...]. As for the Sceptics, it appeared that they were extremely anxious to get there, but still could not quite make up their minds whether or not the island really existed.”	stoicism
7,093	“Our rationality is a visitor.”	stoicism
6,804	“From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.”	stoicism
7,251	“Soon you will be dead and none of it will matter”	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
7,249	“Some of the things we are trying to pray away were caused by some of our answered prayers.”	stoicism
6,834	“Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life.”	stoicism
6,777	“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.”	stoicism
7,070	“If one accomplishes some good though with toil, the toil passes, but the good remains; if one does something dishonourable with pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the dishonour remains.”	stoicism
7,112	“Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.”	stoicism
7,200	“No, it is events that give rise to fear -- when another has the power over them or can prevent them, that person becomes able to inspire fear. How is the fortress destroyed? Not by iron or fire, but by judgments... here is where we must begin, and it is from this front that we must seize the fortress and throw out tyrants.”	stoicism
7,193	“Our caring about what others think about us is one of the pillars of the economy.”	stoicism
7,101	“That kindness is invincible, provided it's sincere- not ironic or an act. What can even the most vicious person do if you keep treating him with kindness and gently set him straight”	stoicism
7,207	“It usually takes maturity in a child, and immaturity in an adult, not to be on speaking terms with someone.”	stoicism
7,357	“The thing whose acquisition ‘made’ you happy need not be stolen, lost, or broken for ‘it’ to make you unhappy.”	stoicism
6,943	“Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried past us, and another one follows and is gone.”	stoicism
7,328	“At the crisis of my fever, I besought Hollingsworth to let nobody else enter the room, but continually to make me sensible of his own presence… then he should be the witness how courageously I would encounter the worst. It still impresses me almost a matter of regret, that I did not die then, when I had tolerably made up my mind to do it”	stoicism
7,296	“Destroying your mirrors hides your ugliness or facial blemishes from only you.”	stoicism
7,642	“And here lies the essential 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
7,428	“Стоик стремится к добродетели, совершенству и живет по принципу: «Делать все настолько хорошо, насколько это возможно», он осознает моральный аспект всех своих действий.”	stoicism
6,795	“Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.”	stoicism
7,589	“That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.”	stoicism
7,374	“And if you want to know why all this running away cannot help you, the answer is simply this: you are running away in your own company.”	stoicism
7,175	“Only those who are stupid mind coming across as stupid.”	stoicism
7,001	“There was an iron simplicty in the seer. He was like a monolith of logic standing against waves of angry nonsense.”	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
7,588	“In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors crowded down to the water's edge and tore each other like wild beasts in their rage of hunger. The paper set forth, in horrified language, that some of them had been seventy-two hours without food. I, as I read, had also been seventy-two hours without food; and the difference was simply that they thought they were starving.”	stoicism
7,319	“The universe is change, and life mere opinion.”	stoicism
7,557	“It is way more pleasurable to master yourself than it is to masturbate.”	stoicism
7,274	“Growth is often the cause or the result of pain.”	stoicism
7,438	“Independence and unvarying reliability, and to pay attention to nothing, no matter how fleetingly, except the logos. And to be the same in all circumstances—intense pain, the loss of a child, chronic illness. And to see clearly, from his example, that a man can show both strength and flexibility. His patience in teaching. And to have seen someone who clearly viewed his expertise and ability as a teacher as the humblest of virtues. And to have learned how to accept favors from friends without losing your self-respect or appearing ungrateful. On Apolonius”	stoicism
6,948	“By meditating on our thoughts, feelings, and desires, we are encouraging a sense of self-awareness and self-mastery. We observe the whimsical and impulsive movements of our mind without getting caught up in them, and in doing so we develop a greater understanding of ourselves.”	stoicism
6,901	“Beware the folly of lending your focus to vain pursuits. Just as a river, when it is split into countless rivulets, loses its force and becomes but a whimper, a mind divided by trivial pursuits dissipates its strength. Focus, therefore, is not merely concentration, it is selection; not merely observation, it is dedication.”	stoicism
7,592	“Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being.”	stoicism
7,224	“It is impossible to separate the art of living from the art of dying, because to be living is to be dying.”	stoicism
7,117	“When faced with people's bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognize that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?)”	stoicism
7,309	“We subconsciously wish that all of the things we hate but our enemies love were harmful.”	stoicism
7,541	“As things are, there is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she didn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.”	stoicism
7,175	“Only those who are stupid mind coming across as stupid.”	stoicism
6,845	“It is better to be despised for simplicity than to suffer agonies from everlasting pretense.”	stoicism
7,348	“Some of those whose existence you wish could end now do not even know about your existence.”	stoicism
7,623	“Progress daily in your own uncertainty. Live in awareness of the questions.”	stoicism
7,261	“A shallow reading of a problem begets outrage; a detailed approach to a problem encourages moderation.”	stoicism
6,963	“Kindness has become so rare that it provokes perplexity about what's sincere and what's deceitful.”	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
7,116	“Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions- not outside.”	stoicism
7,130	“The best kind of pleasure comes from the indifference to pain … and pleasure.”	stoicism
7,538	“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and the number of problems we have.”	stoicism
7,353	“If you work at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract you, but keeping your divine part pure, as if you should be bound to give it back immediately; if you hold to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with your present activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which you utter, you will live happy. And there is no-one who is able to prevent this.”	stoicism
6,856	“I examine my entire day and go back over what I have done and said, hiding nothing from myself, passing nothing by. For why should I fear any consequence from my mistakes, when I am able to say, “See that you do not do it again—but now I forgive you.”	stoicism
7,031	“A man asked me to write to Rome on his behalf who, as most people thought, had met with misfortune; for having been before wealthy and distinguished, he had afterwards lost all and was living here. So I wrote about him in a humble style. He however on reading the letter returned it to me, with the words: "I asked for your help, not for your pity. No evil has happened unto me.”	stoicism
6,983	“Do not trust her seeming calm; in a moment the sea is moved to its depths.”	stoicism
7,434	“Once you start learning from your problems, you stop wishing for a life without problems.”	stoicism
7,491	“Unlike existing, living requires effort.”	stoicism
7,342	“Silence is often the wisest reply.”	stoicism
7,549	“It would be foolish to be stoical all the time, you'd wear yourself out for nothing”	stoicism
7,031	“A man asked me to write to Rome on his behalf who, as most people thought, had met with misfortune; for having been before wealthy and distinguished, he had afterwards lost all and was living here. So I wrote about him in a humble style. He however on reading the letter returned it to me, with the words: "I asked for your help, not for your pity. No evil has happened unto me.”	stoicism
7,499	“There is a correlation between how foolish a man is and how tolerant he is of people who waste his time.”	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
7,417	“Many are the things that have caused terror during the night and been turned into matters of laughter with the coming of daylight.”	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

7,590

“You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole cosmos, to consider everlasting time, to think of the rapid change in the parts of each thing, of how short it is from birth until dissolution, and how the void before birth and that after dissolution are equally infinite.”

stoicism

7,508

“There is a correlation between how hard life seems to us and how easy we expected it to be.”

stoicism

7,103

“But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.”

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

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

7,477

“A man whose mind has completely left childhood behind would not be surprised if he were to walk in on his wife having sex with her father … or with his mother.”

stoicism

6,837

“All Hellenistic schools seem to define [wisdom] in approximately the same terms: first and foremost, as a state of perfect peace of mind. From this viewpoint, philosophy appears as a remedy for human worries, anguish, and misery brought about, for the Cynics, by social constraints and conventions; for the Epicureans, by the quest for false pleasures; for the Stoics, by the pursuit of pleasure and egoistic self-interest; and for the Skeptics, by false opinions. Whether or not they laid claim to the Socratic heritage, all Hellenistic philosophers agreed with Socrates that human beings are plunged in misery, anguish, and evil because they exist in ignorance. Evil is to be found not within things, but in the value judgments with people bring to bear upon things. People can therefore be cured of their ills only if they are persuaded to change their value judgments, and in this sense all these philosophies wanted to be therapeutic.”

stoicism

7,545

“It is impossible to trip and fall while walking slowly.”

stoicism

7,283

“For some reason, there is this façade that life should be full of happiness and without its suffering. Which, actually makes us suffer even more. Because when we get sad or something bad happens, we do not only feel bad about the thing itself but we also feel bad because our life is not the way it is supposed to be. Not realizing suffering and sadness is just a part of life and they are inevitable.”

stoicism

7,642

“And here lies the essential 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

7,406

“We should not use philosophy like a herbal remedy, to be discarded when we're through. Rather, we must allow philosophy to remain with us, continually guarding our judgements throughout life, forming part of our daily regimen, like eating a nutritious diet or taking phisical exercise.”

stoicism

7,391

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

stoicism

7,367

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

stoicism

7,401

“In order to protect ourselves we must live like doctors and be continually treating ourselves with reason.”

stoicism

6,896

“Distractions adorn themselves in the grandeur of the immediate, urgent, and superficial, dazzling our senses and demanding our attention. They leap into the spotlight, shouting loudly to drown the quiet callings of our deepest intentions.”

stoicism

7,024

“What right hast thou to talk of ill of Fortune whilst keeping all Fortune's better gifts?”

stoicism

7,464

“When pain comes, it must not derail you from your set virtues. If it does, you have failed to practice your virtues by going with the hype of pain.”

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

7,246

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

stoicism

6,831

“I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.”

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

7,201

“The vast majority of people are each a puppet that is forever pulled in this or that direction, or pushed into this or that action, by things such as public opinion and an emotion.”

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

7,037

“I encouraged them to bear up against all evils, and if we must perish, to die in our own cause, and not weakly distrust the providence of the Almighty, by giving ourselves up to despair. I reasoned with them, and told them that we would not die sooner by keeping up our hopes; that the dreadful sacrifices and privations we endured were to preserve us from death, and were not to be put in competition with the price which we set upon our lives, and their value to our families: it was, besides, unmanly to repine at what neither admitted of alleviation nor cure; and withal, that it was our solemn duty to recognise in our calamities an overruling divinity, by whose mercy we might be suddenly snatched from peril, and to rely upon him alone, ‘Who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb?”

stoicism

6,804

“From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.”

stoicism

7,548

“They who always expect the worst are almost always pleasantly surprised.”

stoicism

7,345

“An accident is often caused by an attempt to prevent one.”

stoicism

7,263

“Často sa dopúšťa bezprávia aj ten, kto nič nerobí, nielen ten, kto niečo robí.”

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

7,238

“A long life is a curse if you have a short temper.”

stoicism

7,536

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

stoicism

7,430

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

stoicism

7,094

“It is doubly foolish to underuse what you have overpaid for.”

stoicism

7,073

“Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.”

stoicism

7,045

“If ever you want to find out whether anything has been achieved, observe whether your intentions are the same today as they were yesterday. A change of intention shows that the mind is at sea, drifting here and there as carried by the wind.”

stoicism

7,638

“At the bar on the Favoritenstrasse, Julius the policeman talked to us about dignity, evolution, the great Darwin and the great Nietzsche. I translated so that my good friend Ulises could understand what he was saying, although I didn’t understand any of it. The prayer of the bones, said Julius. The yearning for health. The virtue of danger. The tenacity of the forgotten. Bravo, said my good friend Ulises. Bravo, said everyone else. The limits of memory. The wisdom of plants. The eye of parasites. The agility of the earth. The merit of the soldier. The cunning of the giant. The hole of the will. Magnificent, said my good friend Ulises in German. Extraordinary.”

stoicism

7,453

“We're never unhappy until we remember why we're supposed to be unhappy.”

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

7,214

“Developing the extremely rare attitude of not minding how life is happening is a billion times better than prolonging your life, even if by a trillion years.”

stoicism

7,674

“There was no sign of Plato, and I was told later that he had gone to live in his Republic , where he was cheerfully submitting to his own Laws . [...] None of the Stoics were present. Rumour had it that they were still clambering up the steep hill of Virtue [...]. As for the Sceptics, it appeared that they were extremely anxious to get there, but still could not quite make up their minds whether or not the island really existed.”

stoicism

7,093

“Our rationality is a visitor.”

stoicism

6,804

“From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.”

stoicism

7,251

“Soon you will be dead and none of it will matter”

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

7,249

“Some of the things we are trying to pray away were caused by some of our answered prayers.”

stoicism

6,834

“Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life.”

stoicism

6,777

“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.”

stoicism

7,070

“If one accomplishes some good though with toil, the toil passes, but the good remains; if one does something dishonourable with pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the dishonour remains.”

stoicism

7,112

“Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.”

stoicism

7,200

“No, it is events that give rise to fear -- when another has the power over them or can prevent them, that person becomes able to inspire fear. How is the fortress destroyed? Not by iron or fire, but by judgments... here is where we must begin, and it is from this front that we must seize the fortress and throw out tyrants.”

stoicism

7,193

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

stoicism

7,101

“That kindness is invincible, provided it's sincere- not ironic or an act. What can even the most vicious person do if you keep treating him with kindness and gently set him straight”

stoicism

7,207

“It usually takes maturity in a child, and immaturity in an adult, not to be on speaking terms with someone.”

stoicism

7,357

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

stoicism

6,943

“Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried past us, and another one follows and is gone.”

stoicism

7,328

“At the crisis of my fever, I besought Hollingsworth to let nobody else enter the room, but continually to make me sensible of his own presence… then he should be the witness how courageously I would encounter the worst. It still impresses me almost a matter of regret, that I did not die then, when I had tolerably made up my mind to do it”

stoicism

7,296

“Destroying your mirrors hides your ugliness or facial blemishes from only you.”

stoicism

7,642

“And here lies the essential 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

7,428

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

stoicism

6,795

“Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.”

stoicism

7,589

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

stoicism

7,374

“And if you want to know why all this running away cannot help you, the answer is simply this: you are running away in your own company.”

stoicism

7,175

“Only those who are stupid mind coming across as stupid.”

stoicism

7,001

“There was an iron simplicty in the seer. He was like a monolith of logic standing against waves of angry nonsense.”

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

7,588

“In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors crowded down to the water's edge and tore each other like wild beasts in their rage of hunger. The paper set forth, in horrified language, that some of them had been seventy-two hours without food. I, as I read, had also been seventy-two hours without food; and the difference was simply that they thought they were starving.”

stoicism

7,319

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

stoicism

7,557

“It is way more pleasurable to master yourself than it is to masturbate.”

stoicism

7,274

“Growth is often the cause or the result of pain.”

stoicism

7,438

“Independence and unvarying reliability, and to pay attention to nothing, no matter how fleetingly, except the logos. And to be the same in all circumstances—intense pain, the loss of a child, chronic illness. And to see clearly, from his example, that a man can show both strength and flexibility. His patience in teaching. And to have seen someone who clearly viewed his expertise and ability as a teacher as the humblest of virtues. And to have learned how to accept favors from friends without losing your self-respect or appearing ungrateful. On Apolonius”

stoicism

6,948

“By meditating on our thoughts, feelings, and desires, we are encouraging a sense of self-awareness and self-mastery. We observe the whimsical and impulsive movements of our mind without getting caught up in them, and in doing so we develop a greater understanding of ourselves.”

stoicism

6,901

“Beware the folly of lending your focus to vain pursuits. Just as a river, when it is split into countless rivulets, loses its force and becomes but a whimper, a mind divided by trivial pursuits dissipates its strength. Focus, therefore, is not merely concentration, it is selection; not merely observation, it is dedication.”

stoicism

7,592

“Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being.”

stoicism

7,224

“It is impossible to separate the art of living from the art of dying, because to be living is to be dying.”

stoicism

7,117

“When faced with people's bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognize that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?)”

stoicism

7,309

“We subconsciously wish that all of the things we hate but our enemies love were harmful.”

stoicism

7,541

“As things are, there is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she didn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.”

stoicism

7,175

“Only those who are stupid mind coming across as stupid.”

stoicism

6,845

“It is better to be despised for simplicity than to suffer agonies from everlasting pretense.”

stoicism

7,348

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

stoicism

7,623

“Progress daily in your own uncertainty. Live in awareness of the questions.”

stoicism

7,261

“A shallow reading of a problem begets outrage; a detailed approach to a problem encourages moderation.”

stoicism

6,963

“Kindness has become so rare that it provokes perplexity about what's sincere and what's deceitful.”

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

7,116

“Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions- not outside.”

stoicism

7,130

“The best kind of pleasure comes from the indifference to pain … and pleasure.”

stoicism

7,538

“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and the number of problems we have.”

stoicism

7,353

“If you work at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract you, but keeping your divine part pure, as if you should be bound to give it back immediately; if you hold to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with your present activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which you utter, you will live happy. And there is no-one who is able to prevent this.”

stoicism

6,856

“I examine my entire day and go back over what I have done and said, hiding nothing from myself, passing nothing by. For why should I fear any consequence from my mistakes, when I am able to say, “See that you do not do it again—but now I forgive you.”

stoicism

7,031

“A man asked me to write to Rome on his behalf who, as most people thought, had met with misfortune; for having been before wealthy and distinguished, he had afterwards lost all and was living here. So I wrote about him in a humble style. He however on reading the letter returned it to me, with the words: "I asked for your help, not for your pity. No evil has happened unto me.”

stoicism

6,983

“Do not trust her seeming calm; in a moment the sea is moved to its depths.”

stoicism

7,434

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

stoicism

7,491

“Unlike existing, living requires effort.”

stoicism

7,342

“Silence is often the wisest reply.”

stoicism

7,549

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

stoicism

7,031

“A man asked me to write to Rome on his behalf who, as most people thought, had met with misfortune; for having been before wealthy and distinguished, he had afterwards lost all and was living here. So I wrote about him in a humble style. He however on reading the letter returned it to me, with the words: "I asked for your help, not for your pity. No evil has happened unto me.”

stoicism

7,499

“There is a correlation between how foolish a man is and how tolerant he is of people who waste his time.”

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

7,417

“Many are the things that have caused terror during the night and been turned into matters of laughter with the coming of daylight.”

stoicism