“A doctrine which advocates indifference to wealth and to the comforts of life, and a contempt for suffering and death [the Stoics']… — Anton Chekhov 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
“Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Copy Share Image
“He who waits for permission to live will find himself buried with the others who did the same.” — David Maze Copy Share Image
“All Hellenistic schools seem to define [wisdom] in approximately the same terms: first and foremost, as a state of perfect peace of… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
Stoicism is a philosophy designed for the masses, and if it has to be simplified a bit to reach the masses, so… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man? To welcome with affection what is sent by… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“I like flaws and I feel more comfortable around those who have them.. The perfect people make me nervous. I don't trust… — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
I'll suggest that the happiness hypothesis offered by Buddha and the Stoics should be amended: Happiness comes from within, and happiness comes… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Difficulty is the foundation of growth, which is the foundation of greatness.” — @Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“According to Bertrand Russell, the virtuous stoic was one whose will was in agreement with the natural order. He described the basic… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“According to the Stoics therefore a man is free if his desires are not thwarted. However, if we only desire what is… — Donald J. Robertson Copy Share Image
“The stoic contemplates fallen leaves; the epicure rakes them into a loveseat.” — Bauvard 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
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
“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
“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
“There is, I assure you, a medical art for the soul. It is philosophy, whose aid need not be sought, as in… — Cicero Copy Share Image
“Quite simply, the Count’s father had believed that while a man should attend closely to life, he should not attend too closely… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Now this was possible only by a man determining himself entirely *rationally* according to concepts, not according to changing impressions and moods.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
