Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
“Many millions of people secretly feel caged by employment, marriage, and/or parenthood.” — @Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I think I'm incredibly stoic. If I have a bad headache, it takes a while before I reach for a tablet. — Robert Rinder Copy Share Image
There are a lot of women out there who really want a manly man, and they want his stoicism. — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
“Of that imagined stoicism, that theoretical courage, not a trace was left.” — Aldous Huxley 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
“We all die having lived a full life, even those who die while they are being born.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to separate the art of living from the art of dying, because to be living is to be dying.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning 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
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
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“You must develop the ability to be disliked in order to free yourself from the prison of other peoples’ opinions.” — Mark Manson 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
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
If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humaneness is nothing… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“The Sage desires only one thing, virtue, and he is cautious about only one thing, vice. He is the same in every… — Donald J. Robertson 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
See, I don’t expect to win a prize for stoic control and dignity at mourning time. Death deserve tantrums. Beating back shocked… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
“For the Stoics, then, our judgments about the world are all that we can control, but also all that we need to… — Oliver Burkeman 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
“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 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
“He strove for the diapason, the great song that should embrace in itself a whole epoch, a complete era, the voice of… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
“In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The philosophy asserts that virtue (meaning, chiefly, the four cardinal virtues of self-control, courage, justice, and wisdom) is happiness, and it is… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“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
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