“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it;… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“What would Heracles have been if he had said, "How am I to prevent a big lion from appearing, or a big… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Here is your great soul—the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling… — Seneca Copy Share Image
CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“They did this to me but I have remained who I am. I am tempered. I am able. Inside myself there's an… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“Seneca, the Roman moralist, called unchastity "the greatest evil of our time". In light of this pronounced deterioration of marriage, countless Roman… — Alvin J. Schmidt Copy Share Image
I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“[I]ndulge the body just so far as suffices for good health. It needs to be treated somewhat strictly to prevent it from… — Seneca Copy Share Image
A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“The areas of great interest to the Stoics all make an appearance here: virtue, mortality, emotions, self-awareness, fortitude, right action, problem solving,… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
History happened, but yet we quarrel over this so much we're in war about what happened yesterday. We seem to hold onto… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
In my mind, there is no reason why Stoicism shouldn't become as popular as Buddhism, especially in the Western world, where the… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“One of the first lessons from Stoicism, then, is to focus our attention and efforts where we have the most power and… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
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