“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom. — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
“Well, and it is not my fault if I have not loved as one loves a concubine, since men do not.” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“I hear my silence talked of in every lane; The suppression of a cry is itself a cry of pain.” — Darshan Singh Copy Share Image
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Do not be interested in the quantity of people who respect and admire you, but in their quality. If bad people dislike… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I'm a really stoic artist. I'm serious a lot of times. I can joke and play sometimes, but most of the time,… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
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
I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her… — Nicole Krauss 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
“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
“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
Note to self: Positive hearts reward the hearts of the pythagoras soul, yet attract the neoplatonic thoughts of our peripatetic minds in… — Jasmina Siderovski Copy Share Image
“Perhaps struggle is all we have because the god of history is an atheist, and nothing about his world is meant to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We should remember that even Nature's inadvertence has its own charm, its own attractiveness. Take the baking of bread. The loaf splits… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Kant has been famous for his rejection of eudaimonism, but I think Kantian ethics has a great deal in common with Aristotle,… — Allen W. Wood 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“Suddenly I know just what I’m going to do. Something that will blow anything Peeta did right out of the water. I… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“For the Stoics, however, the near impossibility of becoming a sage is not a problem. They talk about sages primarily so they… — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
“As social beings, it is in our relationships that we have most opportunity to flourish. Indeed, the Stoics argued that our own… — Donald J. Robertson Copy Share Image
“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.” — Perry Anderson 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
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
After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand. — Jamie Ford Copy Share Image
“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.” Epictetus” — Change Your Life Publishing Copy Share Image
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