“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Love is not the denial of power, but its highest expression. The strong love differently than the weak.” — David Maze Copy Share Image
“Seneca may have put it best two thousand years ago: “To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”51” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Difficulty is the foundation of growth, which is the foundation of greatness.” — @Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“I’m stoic like a statue of Stonewall Jackson. I’d make a great U.S. President, but I’d make an even better chiseled piece… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
No doubt, much of the joy of a great romance is the moment when these stoic heroes crack open and reveal themselves… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
“In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling… — Joseph McCabe 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;… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The essential idea of Stoicism in my interpretation is, you don't control the world around you, you control how you respond. At… — Ryan Holiday 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
“Epictetus: "The judgment seat and a prison is each a place, the one high, the other low; but the attitude of your… — James B. Stockdale 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
“Oh, dear me!" he lamented. "The raft has floated off and I suppose it's gone down that awful hole by now." "Well,… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
There are clearly people for whom Stoicism immediately "clicks," it comes natural, and others for whom it doesn't. Then again, Stoicism isn't… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“The Stoics, by contrast, believed that we are essentially social creatures, with a ‘natural affection’ and ‘affinity’ for all people. This forms… — Donald J. Robertson Copy Share Image
But you want to know about the influence of books on my life, and as I've said, there was only one. Seneca.… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“The Stoics, as we have seen, thought tranquility was worth pursuing, and the tranquility they sought, it will be remembered, is a… — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
I don't see any Stoic practice as problematic or risky, but I would advise to engage in extreme versions of the negative… — Massimo Pigliucci 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
“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
“Stoic moral training depends upon the defensibility of these schematic propositions: (a) Rational deliberative power (rational agency) is a defining feature of… — Lawrence C. Becker Copy Share Image
If you take this life to be simply what old religious folks pretend (I mean the effete, gone to seed in a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“And here we determine the άκμή [acme], i.e. perfect state, of the nations, which is enjoyed when the sciences, disciplines and arts,… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“There was no sign of Plato, and I was told later that he had gone to live in his Republic , where… — Lucian of Samosata Copy Share Image
And Father said, “There are no happy endings.” “Right!” cried Iowa Bob – an odd mixture of exuberance and stoicism in his… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history ; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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