“You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist… — Shelby Foote 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
“You say there is but one way to worship the Great Spirit. If there is but one religion, why do you white… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Be stoic when necessary and write-you have seen a lot, felt deeply, and your problems are universal enough to be made meaningful-WRITE.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The man who looks for the morrow without worrying over it knows a peaceful independence and a happiness beyond all others. Whoever… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“The Christian is not a Stoic. Neither does he flee into a fantasy world that denies the reality of suffering.” — R.C. Sproul 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“It’s kind of a stoic life, to survive strictly on your obsessions. It’s also kind of religious, sometimes. You could say that… — Roland Kelts Copy Share Image
“The world might rage around, yet within the Stoic’s mind, a tranquil sea prevails. The Stoic remains anchored, not carried away by… — Kevin L. Michel Copy Share Image
“To me, the persistence of my grandfather's rituals meant that he was unchanged, running on discipline and continuance and stoicism. I didn't… — Téa Obreht Copy Share Image
“Everything worthwhile in your life draws its meaning from the fact you will die.” — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Even though you picture Russians as stoic, their language is really poetic. — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
“It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“We are losing the art of intensity. We are losing the beauty of the struggle.” — Lokesh Tuli 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
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
Stoicism is of no use to me whatsoever. What I'm a big believer in is talking about everything until you're blue in… — David Shields Copy Share Image
“If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human happiness is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh Seneca” — Will Jelbert Copy Share Image
“Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy, and… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Most people celebrate the continuity of their existence so passionately that you would swear they chose to exist.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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