Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“I value my time so much that undressing is the only thing I am willing to do for sex.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“I love your stoic nature and your beautiful cock and the way you are honest with me.” — James Cox Copy Share Image
“We Stoics are not subjects of a despot: each of us lays claim to his own freedom.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“You must develop the ability to be disliked in order to free yourself from the prison of other peoples’ opinions.” — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Both Stoicism and Epicureanism—. the apathetic acceptance of defeat, and the effort to forget defeat in the arms of pleasure—were theories as… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Begin at once to live and count each day a separate life time.” - Seneca “Our lives are the sum total of… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
The Stoics appear during a huge time of constant wars and real political strife. And it became very popular, I think, because… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“No doubt they thought that by allowing themselves to become martyrs to their nerves they were giving proof of a fine stoicism,… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
The stoic drama 'A Somewhat Gentle Man' is photographed in a palate of steel gray tones that match Stellan Skarsgard's complexion. It's… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
“When you run up against someone else’s shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shamelessness possible? No. Then don’t ask the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Stoicism, hedonism, and anarchism are, at their roots, urges for control, for the ‘I’ to dominate the other, if not the world.… — T.M. Doran Copy Share Image
“The wife of a junior officer cooped up in a horrible canvas partition in steerage for five months wrote: "I had enjoyed… — Stephen Taylor Copy Share Image
“Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and merciful —… — Gai Eaton Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi Copy Share Image
Before the 3rd century you're having several philosophical schools still as a going concern. You have not only the Platonists and the… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
“The Stoics define wisdom to be conducted by reason, and folly nothing else but the being hurried by passion, lest our life… — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus Copy Share Image
“It is the kind of stoicism which had been seen as characteristic of Anglo-Saxon poetry, perhaps nowhere better expressed than in 'The… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Each of us is impermanent wave of energy folded into the infinite cosmic order. Acknowledgement of the fundamental impermanence of ourselves unchains… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“And do you know why we have not the power to attain this Stoic ideal? It is because we refuse to believe… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“We are losing the art of intensity. We are losing the beauty of the struggle.” — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand. — Jamie Ford Copy Share Image
“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“In love. In love with the stoic, the sullen, the eternally morose Varen Nethers? He would never allow it.” — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
“Life is yet to produce someone who is loved by or important to everyone.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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