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
“The stoic contemplates fallen leaves; the epicure rakes them into a loveseat.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“Soon, you will have forgotten everything. Soon, everybody will have forgotten you.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Stoicism for show: to be an enthusiast of nil admirari, an hysteric of ataraxia.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.” — Alessandro Pertini Copy Share Image
“Truth is a sword, and only those willing to bleed for it should dare to wield it.” — David Maze Copy Share Image
It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus — Epictetus 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 women who are matter-of-fact, or stoic, as they undergo this procedure far outnumber those who are anxious or tearful.” — Willie Parker Copy Share Image
So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Stoic tranquility was a psychological state marked by the absence of negative emotions, such as grief, anger, and anxiety, and the presence… — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Stoics follow each other like sheep. Wanting glorification for their nature as to say they think they're cosmological leaders over nature. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Seneca and stoicism as a back door to explain why everything antifragile has to have more upside than downside” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
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 Stoic makes no differentiation between a small act of kindness by a simple person and a great act of virtue from… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Plotinus is usually called the Founder of Neo Platonism and what that means is that in this philosophical circle, he was founding… — Peter Adamson 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
“The Stoic discovers the model for his virtuous conduct in studying the laws of nature; just as each object, plant, and animal… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“You are still on your own; be stoic; don't panic; get through this hell to the generous sweet overflowing GIVING love of… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality. I often imagine… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“There was a lot of pretense floating around; not just with aunties and all that but with emotions and how people saw… — Mark E. Smith Copy Share Image
“But if love and friendship are weaknesses, they are basic human weaknesses: by which I mean that they are weaknesses so endemic… — Michael Slote 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
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
“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
“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
“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton appears to believe in a form of stoicism - which is a tried and true life philosophy. — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
“We need not reply or even listen to people who are talking about—not to—us.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself." - Epictetus” — Dennis Crosby Copy Share Image
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