“Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.” — Alessandro Pertini Copy Share Image
“Truth is a sword, and only those willing to bleed for it should dare to wield it.” — David Maze Copy Share Image
“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“We need not reply or even listen to people who are talking about—not to—us.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself." - Epictetus” — Dennis Crosby Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton appears to believe in a form of stoicism - which is a tried and true life philosophy. — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
“B.C.)—Stoicism stressed the search for inner peace and ethical certainty despite the apparent chaos of the external world by emulating in one’s… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The former breathes only peace and liberty; he desires only to live and be free from labor; even the ataraxia of the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Epictetus: "The judgment seat and a prison is each a place, the one high, the other low; but the attitude of your… — James B. Stockdale Copy Share Image
To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.'… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Seneca and stoicism as a back door to explain why everything antifragile has to have more upside than downside” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Stoics follow each other like sheep. Wanting glorification for their nature as to say they think they're cosmological leaders over nature. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Stoicism is about Joy, Serenity, Meaning and Purpose. It is about being a useful and important member of society.” — Patrick Ussher Copy Share Image
I don't see any Stoic practice as problematic or risky, but I would advise to engage in extreme versions of the negative… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“The Stoics, as we have seen, thought tranquility was worth pursuing, and the tranquility they sought, it will be remembered, is a… — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
“The Christian stoic who has crushed his feelings is only two-thirds of a man; an important third part has been repudiated. Holy… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“I walked the length of the ward, towards the exit with what I imagined to be the stoic, dignified stride of a… — Rob Grimes Copy Share Image
My parents, Arthur and Olwen, were honest, working-class people who raised my brother Arthur, sister June, and me with the values of… — David Jason Copy Share Image
I believe Stoicism can help anyone who takes it seriously and begins to practice it. It will help them flourish because it… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
I've gotten a lot of comfort from the philosophy of the Roman Stoics. For me, one of the most powerful ideas of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“If you haven’t learned something From periods of suffering, If you haven’t wrung the juices Of your own pain and drank them… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
If you take this life to be simply what old religious folks pretend (I mean the effete, gone to seed in a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“And here we determine the άκμή [acme], i.e. perfect state, of the nations, which is enjoyed when the sciences, disciplines and arts,… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“The stoic says the universe Is leagued to try the sage's virtue. If evil smites you, look for worse, And if it… — Morris Bishop Copy Share Image
“Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality. I often imagine… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“But if love and friendship are weaknesses, they are basic human weaknesses: by which I mean that they are weaknesses so endemic… — Michael Slote Copy Share Image
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