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6,853	“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.”	stoicism
6,882	“Stand up straight, not straightened The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”	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
7,101	“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
7,147	“You can be too old to live, but not too young to die.”	stoicism
7,524	“We ought to be thankful not only for what we have but also for what we do not have.”	stoicism
7,424	“Resent a thing by all means if it represents an injustice decreed against yourself personally; but if this same constraint is binding on the lowest and the highest alike, then make your peace again with destiny, the destiny that unravels all ties.”	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
7,539	“Feeling sorry for our bodies ought to be the closest we get to feeling sorry for ourselves.”	stoicism
7,566	“Life is a game we are all bound to lose.”	stoicism
6,874	“Before concluding the discussion on Partridge’s connection to the Stoic tradition, I present what is probably the greatest proof Partridge was a Stoic: he suffered the public doom of one. Ironically, Partridge may have missed a powerful warning about his own fate within one of the key texts he used in his academies. A footnote within William Duncan’s translation of Cicero’s orations recalls the ill fortune of Quintus Aelius Tubero in the eyes of the people of Rome caused by his Stoic behavior at the funeral of Scipio Africanus: "[It was the same from the study of Tubero] Cicero here ridicules the doctrine of the Stoics, shows the absurdities into which it may betray a man and paints the ill consequences that often arise from it. [Quintus Aelius] Tubero, of whom he speaks here had professed himself a Stoic and resolved to regulate his conduct by the tenets of that sect. Accordingly, in an entertainment he gave the Roman people on occasion of the death of the great Scipio Africanus he made use of plain wooden beds, goat skin covers, and earthen dishes. But this ill-timed parsimony was so displeasing to the Roman people that when he afterwards stood for the prætorship they refused him their suffrages though a man of illustrious birth and the most distinguished virtue." Is there a passage more fitting for the legacy of Partridge and his Stoic behavior? Even when Partridge had built an ideal model for educating a complete virtue-driven citizen worthy of the Republic, few would find the lifestyle required appealing. Being a virtuous man with a sufficient plan for American education was not enough to guarantee his acceptance among the masses.”	stoicism
6,971	“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.” ~ Epictetus”	stoicism
7,219	“Anxiety is the shadow of what we do not want to lose.”	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
7,612	“But is life really worth so much? Let us examine this; it's a different inquiry. We will offer no solace for so desolate a prison house; we will encourage no one to endure the overlordship of butchers. We shall rather show that in every kind of slavery, the road of freedom lies open. I will say to the man to whom it befell to have a king shoot arrows at his dear ones [Prexaspes], and to him whose master makes fathers banquet on their sons' guts [Harpagus]: 'What are you groaning for, fool?... Everywhere you look you find an end to your sufferings. You see that steep drop-off? It leads down to freedom. You see that ocean, that river, that well? Freedom lies at its bottom. You see that short, shriveled, bare tree? Freedom hangs from it.... You ask, what is the path to freedom? Any vein in your body.”	stoicism
7,035	“Mindfulness is the only doorway to the unhurried life.”	stoicism
6,979	“Milo's Way- A Haiku Strength sought in small steps, Like Milo's calf on shoulders, Grow with steady will.”	stoicism
7,332	“Zu den herrlichsten Schätzen, die durch die Bemühungen anderer aus der Finsternis ans Licht gezogen sind, werden wir geführt; kein Zeitalter ist uns verschlossen, zu allen haben wir Zutritt [...] Die Zusammenfassung aller Zeiten macht ihm [/ihr] das Leben lang.”	stoicism
6,887	“If you come across any special trait of meanness or stupidity … you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your knowledge—a new fact to be considered in studying the character of humanity. Your attitude towards it will be that of the mineralogist who stumbles upon a very characteristic specimen of a mineral.”	stoicism
7,482	“We are generally pleased the most by compliments that are insincere.”	stoicism
7,146	“Some solutions are seeds of some problems.”	stoicism
7,320	“Education almost always leaves stupidity intact.”	stoicism
7,309	“We subconsciously wish that all of the things we hate but our enemies love were harmful.”	stoicism
7,540	“A blind man’s thoughts almost never have anything to do with the things he is facing.”	stoicism
6,853	“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.”	stoicism
7,223	“To live is to owe life to die.”	stoicism
7,436	“If someone in the street were entrusted with your body, you would be furious. Yet you entrust your mind to anyone around who happens to insult you, and allow it to be troubled and confused. Aren’t you ashamed of that?”	stoicism
7,398	“Our mind can be in heaven while our body is in hell. And vice versa.”	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
7,374	“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
7,447	“The most effective way to understand the dissonance between our thoughts about reality and reality itself, is to consider how many times we've felt like our world is ending and how many times it actually has.”	stoicism
7,156	“We must say nothing, when we have nothing to say.”	stoicism
7,119	“Most people want more than they have without having made the most of what they have.”	stoicism
7,065	“Fools are often unable to do what needs to be done, because they were doing, or are doing, what need not be done at that time … or at all.”	stoicism
7,027	“Cecilia, the youngest, only thirteen, had gone first, slitting her wrists like a Stoic while taking a bath, and when they found her, afloat in her pink pool, with the yellow eyes of someone possessed and her small body giving off the odor of a mature woman, the paramedics had been so frightened by her tranquillity that they had stood mesmerized.”	stoicism
6,850	“[I]n a man praise is due only to what is his very own. Suppose he has a beautiful home and a handsome collection of servants, a lot of land under cultivation and a lot of money out at interest; not one of these things can be said to be in him – they are just things around him. Praise in him what can neither be given nor snatched away, what is peculiarly a man's. You ask what that is? It is his spirit, and the perfection of his reason in that spirit.”	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
7,188	“There is no correlation between how many people or things, how much money, or how many problems you have … and how grateful, happy, or peaceful you can be.”	stoicism
7,004	“The ability to do without a kingdom is a kingdom.”	stoicism
7,602	“The supreme ideal does not call for any external aids. It is homegrown, wholly self-developed. Once it starts looking outside itself for any part of itself it is on the way to being dominated by fortune.”	stoicism
7,080	“Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart—”	stoicism
7,582	“The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.”	stoicism
7,126	“Most people would rather believe something that is not true about something than accept the fact that they do not understand a thing about that thing.”	stoicism
6,982	“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waist a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficient generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death's final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we know it was passing”	stoicism
7,343	“Soon earth will cover us all. Then in time earth, too, will change; later, what issues from this change will itself in turn incessantly change, and so again will all that then takes its place, even unto the world's end. to let the mind dwell on these swiftly rolling billows of change and transformation is to know a contempt for all things mortal.”	stoicism
6,818	“40. The gods either have power or they have not. If they have not, why pray to them? If they have, then instead of praying to be granted or spared such-and-such a thing, why not rather pray to be delivered from dreading it, or lusting for it, or grieving over it? Clearly, if they can help a man at all, they can help him in this way. You will say, perhaps, ‘But all that is something they have put in my own power.’ Then surely it were better to use your power and be a free man, than to hanker like a slave and a beggar for something that is not in your power. Besides, who told you the gods never lend their aid even towards things that do lie in our own power? Begin praying in this way, and you will see. Where another man prays ‘Grant that I may possess this woman,’ let your own prayer be, ‘Grant that I may not lust to possess her.’ Where he prays, ‘Grant me to be rid of such-and-such a one,’ you pray, ‘Take from me my desire to be rid of him.’ Where he begs, ‘Spare me the loss of my precious child,’ beg rather to be delivered from the terror of losing him. In short, give your petitions a turn in this direction, and see what comes.”	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
6,992	“I am acting on behalf of later generations. I am writing down a few things that may be of use to them.”	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
7,177	“To make life very pleasurable, expect nothing. To make it even more pleasurable than that, expect nothing … but the worst.”	stoicism
7,274	“Growth is often the cause or the result of pain.”	stoicism
7,063	“Difficulty is the foundation of growth, which is the foundation of greatness.”	stoicism
7,565	“Suffering and happiness are not mutually exclusive.”	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
7,207	“It usually takes maturity in a child, and immaturity in an adult, not to be on speaking terms with someone.”	stoicism
6,876	“All roads to Hades are of equal length”	stoicism
7,427	“Но в действительности стоицизм — это не подавление или сокрытие эмоций, а их осознание, размышление об их причинах и умение направлять их себе на благо. Это понимание того, что находится под нашим контролем, а что — нет: следует сосредоточить усилия на первом, вместо того чтобы напрасно тратить их на второе.”	stoicism
7,189	“To complain about life is to complain about being alive.”	stoicism
7,380	“To some of us, these are the good old days in the making.”	stoicism
7,198	“What does it mean to be getting an education? It means learning to apply natural preconceptions to particular cases as nature prescribes, and distinguishing what is in our power from what is not.”	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
6,842	“Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.”	stoicism
7,403	“Disturbance comes only from within- from our own perceptions. Everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist”	stoicism
6,799	“I hear my silence talked of in every lane; The suppression of a cry is itself a cry of pain.”	stoicism
6,957	“Associate with those who will make a better of man. Welcome those whom yourself can improve. Men learn while they teach.”	stoicism
7,133	“Sometimes the only thing you can do is accept the fact that there is nothing you can do.”	stoicism
7,635	“When you give your items away, don’t keep the excess of your pride.”	stoicism
7,569	“Life takes from us only lives we were given by it.”	stoicism
7,220	“To plan is to hope … without feeling passive.”	stoicism
6,964	“Having in mind not how bravely I was capable of dying but how far from bravely he was capable of bearing the loss, I commanded myself to live.”	stoicism
6,925	“Perchance some day the memory of this sorrow Will even bring delight”	stoicism
6,941	“The events that may befall you tomorrow are not new or novel, and the emotions that you will experience have been felt by countless others throughout the crashing torrent of time. They survived. Why can’t you?”	stoicism
7,616	“We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.”	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
6,832	“Maximum remedium est irae mora.”	stoicism
6,792	“Think of your many years of procrastination; how the gods have repeatedly granted you further periods of grace, of which you have taken no advantage. It is time now to realise the nature of the universe to which you belong, and of that controlling Power whose offspring you are; and to understand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.”	stoicism
7,129	“Life cannot, not even for a millisecond, remain exactly how it is.”	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
7,329	“Nothing can affect a person’s mind if he chooses not to be affected by it.”	stoicism
7,441	“[P]leasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”	stoicism
7,594	“Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.”	stoicism
6,887	“If you come across any special trait of meanness or stupidity … you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your knowledge—a new fact to be considered in studying the character of humanity. Your attitude towards it will be that of the mineralogist who stumbles upon a very characteristic specimen of a mineral.”	stoicism
7,381	“It takes, not cowardice, but courage to kill yourself.”	stoicism
7,149	“You cannot love what you have become, yet hate what you have overcome.”	stoicism
7,448	“I began to care a lot less about embarrassment after running into somebody who for months, I feared I would, and realizing afterward that my life was no different after the encounter than before.”	stoicism
7,059	“Paying someone to do something on our behalf is the closest we can get to buying time.”	stoicism
7,209	“Getting something or someone we want is often a guaranteed way to eventually stop us from wanting it, him, or her.”	stoicism
7,437	“Even in the longest life real living is the least portion thereof.”	stoicism
6,776	“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.”	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
7,190	“Whenever an animal is overworking, a human is to blame.”	stoicism
7,337	“Escaping death is a temporary victory.”	stoicism
7,602	“The supreme ideal does not call for any external aids. It is homegrown, wholly self-developed. Once it starts looking outside itself for any part of itself it is on the way to being dominated by fortune.”	stoicism
6,962	“People look for retreats for themselves, in the country, by the coast, or in the hills. There is nowhere that a person can find a more peaceful and trouble-free retreat than in his mind. So constantly give yourself this retreat, and renew yourself.”	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
6,917	“Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not.”	stoicism
7,556	“You cannot continue to hate someone without repeatedly wasting, on them, some of your precious time and mental energy.”	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
6,971	“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.” ~ Epictetus”	stoicism
7,213	“Failing can ultimately be way more rewarding than succeeding.”	stoicism

6,853

“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.”

stoicism

6,882

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

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

7,101

“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

7,147

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

stoicism

7,524

“We ought to be thankful not only for what we have but also for what we do not have.”

stoicism

7,424

“Resent a thing by all means if it represents an injustice decreed against yourself personally; but if this same constraint is binding on the lowest and the highest alike, then make your peace again with destiny, the destiny that unravels all ties.”

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

7,539

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

stoicism

7,566

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

stoicism

6,874

“Before concluding the discussion on Partridge’s connection to the Stoic tradition, I present what is probably the greatest proof Partridge was a Stoic: he suffered the public doom of one. Ironically, Partridge may have missed a powerful warning about his own fate within one of the key texts he used in his academies. A footnote within William Duncan’s translation of Cicero’s orations recalls the ill fortune of Quintus Aelius Tubero in the eyes of the people of Rome caused by his Stoic behavior at the funeral of Scipio Africanus: "[It was the same from the study of Tubero] Cicero here ridicules the doctrine of the Stoics, shows the absurdities into which it may betray a man and paints the ill consequences that often arise from it. [Quintus Aelius] Tubero, of whom he speaks here had professed himself a Stoic and resolved to regulate his conduct by the tenets of that sect. Accordingly, in an entertainment he gave the Roman people on occasion of the death of the great Scipio Africanus he made use of plain wooden beds, goat skin covers, and earthen dishes. But this ill-timed parsimony was so displeasing to the Roman people that when he afterwards stood for the prætorship they refused him their suffrages though a man of illustrious birth and the most distinguished virtue." Is there a passage more fitting for the legacy of Partridge and his Stoic behavior? Even when Partridge had built an ideal model for educating a complete virtue-driven citizen worthy of the Republic, few would find the lifestyle required appealing. Being a virtuous man with a sufficient plan for American education was not enough to guarantee his acceptance among the masses.”

stoicism

6,971

“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.” ~ Epictetus”

stoicism

7,219

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

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

7,612

“But is life really worth so much? Let us examine this; it's a different inquiry. We will offer no solace for so desolate a prison house; we will encourage no one to endure the overlordship of butchers. We shall rather show that in every kind of slavery, the road of freedom lies open. I will say to the man to whom it befell to have a king shoot arrows at his dear ones [Prexaspes], and to him whose master makes fathers banquet on their sons' guts [Harpagus]: 'What are you groaning for, fool?... Everywhere you look you find an end to your sufferings. You see that steep drop-off? It leads down to freedom. You see that ocean, that river, that well? Freedom lies at its bottom. You see that short, shriveled, bare tree? Freedom hangs from it.... You ask, what is the path to freedom? Any vein in your body.”

stoicism

7,035

“Mindfulness is the only doorway to the unhurried life.”

stoicism

6,979

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

stoicism

7,332

“Zu den herrlichsten Schätzen, die durch die Bemühungen anderer aus der Finsternis ans Licht gezogen sind, werden wir geführt; kein Zeitalter ist uns verschlossen, zu allen haben wir Zutritt [...] Die Zusammenfassung aller Zeiten macht ihm [/ihr] das Leben lang.”

stoicism

6,887

“If you come across any special trait of meanness or stupidity … you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your knowledge—a new fact to be considered in studying the character of humanity. Your attitude towards it will be that of the mineralogist who stumbles upon a very characteristic specimen of a mineral.”

stoicism

7,482

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

stoicism

7,146

“Some solutions are seeds of some problems.”

stoicism

7,320

“Education almost always leaves stupidity intact.”

stoicism

7,309

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

stoicism

7,540

“A blind man’s thoughts almost never have anything to do with the things he is facing.”

stoicism

6,853

“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.”

stoicism

7,223

“To live is to owe life to die.”

stoicism

7,436

“If someone in the street were entrusted with your body, you would be furious. Yet you entrust your mind to anyone around who happens to insult you, and allow it to be troubled and confused. Aren’t you ashamed of that?”

stoicism

7,398

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

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

7,374

“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

7,447

“The most effective way to understand the dissonance between our thoughts about reality and reality itself, is to consider how many times we've felt like our world is ending and how many times it actually has.”

stoicism

7,156

“We must say nothing, when we have nothing to say.”

stoicism

7,119

“Most people want more than they have without having made the most of what they have.”

stoicism

7,065

“Fools are often unable to do what needs to be done, because they were doing, or are doing, what need not be done at that time … or at all.”

stoicism

7,027

“Cecilia, the youngest, only thirteen, had gone first, slitting her wrists like a Stoic while taking a bath, and when they found her, afloat in her pink pool, with the yellow eyes of someone possessed and her small body giving off the odor of a mature woman, the paramedics had been so frightened by her tranquillity that they had stood mesmerized.”

stoicism

6,850

“[I]n a man praise is due only to what is his very own. Suppose he has a beautiful home and a handsome collection of servants, a lot of land under cultivation and a lot of money out at interest; not one of these things can be said to be in him – they are just things around him. Praise in him what can neither be given nor snatched away, what is peculiarly a man's. You ask what that is? It is his spirit, and the perfection of his reason in that spirit.”

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

7,188

“There is no correlation between how many people or things, how much money, or how many problems you have … and how grateful, happy, or peaceful you can be.”

stoicism

7,004

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

stoicism

7,602

“The supreme ideal does not call for any external aids. It is homegrown, wholly self-developed. Once it starts looking outside itself for any part of itself it is on the way to being dominated by fortune.”

stoicism

7,080

“Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart—”

stoicism

7,582

“The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.”

stoicism

7,126

“Most people would rather believe something that is not true about something than accept the fact that they do not understand a thing about that thing.”

stoicism

6,982

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

stoicism

7,343

“Soon earth will cover us all. Then in time earth, too, will change; later, what issues from this change will itself in turn incessantly change, and so again will all that then takes its place, even unto the world's end. to let the mind dwell on these swiftly rolling billows of change and transformation is to know a contempt for all things mortal.”

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6,818

“40. The gods either have power or they have not. If they have not, why pray to them? If they have, then instead of praying to be granted or spared such-and-such a thing, why not rather pray to be delivered from dreading it, or lusting for it, or grieving over it? Clearly, if they can help a man at all, they can help him in this way. You will say, perhaps, ‘But all that is something they have put in my own power.’ Then surely it were better to use your power and be a free man, than to hanker like a slave and a beggar for something that is not in your power. Besides, who told you the gods never lend their aid even towards things that do lie in our own power? Begin praying in this way, and you will see. Where another man prays ‘Grant that I may possess this woman,’ let your own prayer be, ‘Grant that I may not lust to possess her.’ Where he prays, ‘Grant me to be rid of such-and-such a one,’ you pray, ‘Take from me my desire to be rid of him.’ Where he begs, ‘Spare me the loss of my precious child,’ beg rather to be delivered from the terror of losing him. In short, give your petitions a turn in this direction, and see what comes.”

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

6,992

“I am acting on behalf of later generations. I am writing down a few things that may be of use to them.”

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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

7,177

“To make life very pleasurable, expect nothing. To make it even more pleasurable than that, expect nothing … but the worst.”

stoicism

7,274

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

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7,063

“Difficulty is the foundation of growth, which is the foundation of greatness.”

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7,565

“Suffering and happiness are not mutually exclusive.”

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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

7,207

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

stoicism

6,876

“All roads to Hades are of equal length”

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7,427

“Но в действительности стоицизм — это не подавление или сокрытие эмоций, а их осознание, размышление об их причинах и умение направлять их себе на благо. Это понимание того, что находится под нашим контролем, а что — нет: следует сосредоточить усилия на первом, вместо того чтобы напрасно тратить их на второе.”

stoicism

7,189

“To complain about life is to complain about being alive.”

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7,380

“To some of us, these are the good old days in the making.”

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7,198

“What does it mean to be getting an education? It means learning to apply natural preconceptions to particular cases as nature prescribes, and distinguishing what is in our power from what is not.”

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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.”

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6,842

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

stoicism

7,403

“Disturbance comes only from within- from our own perceptions. Everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist”

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6,799

“I hear my silence talked of in every lane; The suppression of a cry is itself a cry of pain.”

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6,957

“Associate with those who will make a better of man. Welcome those whom yourself can improve. Men learn while they teach.”

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7,133

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

stoicism

7,635

“When you give your items away, don’t keep the excess of your pride.”

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7,569

“Life takes from us only lives we were given by it.”

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7,220

“To plan is to hope … without feeling passive.”

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6,964

“Having in mind not how bravely I was capable of dying but how far from bravely he was capable of bearing the loss, I commanded myself to live.”

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6,925

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

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6,941

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

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7,616

“We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.”

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.”

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6,832

“Maximum remedium est irae mora.”

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6,792

“Think of your many years of procrastination; how the gods have repeatedly granted you further periods of grace, of which you have taken no advantage. It is time now to realise the nature of the universe to which you belong, and of that controlling Power whose offspring you are; and to understand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.”

stoicism

7,129

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

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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

7,329

“Nothing can affect a person’s mind if he chooses not to be affected by it.”

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7,441

“[P]leasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”

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7,594

“Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.”

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6,887

“If you come across any special trait of meanness or stupidity … you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your knowledge—a new fact to be considered in studying the character of humanity. Your attitude towards it will be that of the mineralogist who stumbles upon a very characteristic specimen of a mineral.”

stoicism

7,381

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

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7,149

“You cannot love what you have become, yet hate what you have overcome.”

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7,448

“I began to care a lot less about embarrassment after running into somebody who for months, I feared I would, and realizing afterward that my life was no different after the encounter than before.”

stoicism

7,059

“Paying someone to do something on our behalf is the closest we can get to buying time.”

stoicism

7,209

“Getting something or someone we want is often a guaranteed way to eventually stop us from wanting it, him, or her.”

stoicism

7,437

“Even in the longest life real living is the least portion thereof.”

stoicism

6,776

“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.”

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

7,190

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

stoicism

7,337

“Escaping death is a temporary victory.”

stoicism

7,602

“The supreme ideal does not call for any external aids. It is homegrown, wholly self-developed. Once it starts looking outside itself for any part of itself it is on the way to being dominated by fortune.”

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6,962

“People look for retreats for themselves, in the country, by the coast, or in the hills. There is nowhere that a person can find a more peaceful and trouble-free retreat than in his mind. So constantly give yourself this retreat, and renew yourself.”

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“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”

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6,917

“Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not.”

stoicism

7,556

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

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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”

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“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.” ~ Epictetus”

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“Failing can ultimately be way more rewarding than succeeding.”

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