Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I can be very stoic looking, that's just my facial expression. I don't smile a lot. — Robert Parish Copy Share Image
“The most critical part of this system was the belief that you, the student who has sought out Stoicism, have the most… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“The supreme ideal does not call for any external aids. It is homegrown, wholly self-developed. Once it starts looking outside itself for… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Even the busiest bee does not move from one flower to another as often as an untamed mind moves from one thought… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
“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
“The Stoics taught a life of restraint and control, the personal cultivation of learning, beauty, and reason. The Stoics asked the Romans… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“Deeply rooted in the universalist Western tradition of the Stoics and the the early medieval Christians, Tolkien created a myth to explore… — Bradley J. Birzer Copy Share Image
“All this is, of course, the old philosophic distinction between reason and passion; but Spinoza adds vitally to Socrates and the Stoics.… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all; and to “burst” with boldness and good-will into “the silent sea” of their souls is… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.” — @Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Rejection of desire is liberating. Renunciation is a form of power.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“he saw and recognised the visible and he sought his place in this world. He did not seek reality; his goal was… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Of that imagined stoicism, that theoretical courage, not a trace was left.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“When others inspire us, they tend to do so through the clear expression of these sketchy, adumbrated thoughts we ourselves have known… — Derren Brown 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
Plotinus is usually called the Founder of Neo Platonism and what that means is that in this philosophical circle, he was founding… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
