“It is a rare blessing to see things, and to accept people, as they are.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
As a political spouse, I've found that my stoicism often serves me well. — Jill Biden Copy Share Image
“We are good to others only because we think that that is, or will be, good for us.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
“Seneca may have put it best two thousand years ago: “To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”51” — Nicholas Carr 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
As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that… — Alexandra David-Neel 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
“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
“Stoicism is about Joy, Serenity, Meaning and Purpose. It is about being a useful and important member of society.” — Patrick Ussher Copy Share Image
“Morris had been raised a Mennonite stoic in a tribe that wasn't a tribe at all, but more a failed cult whose… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
“At least when I bleed, it’s my own blood. At least when I fuck up, it’s my own fault. I own my… — Lokesh Tuli 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
“The Christian stoic who has crushed his feelings is only two-thirds of a man; an important third part has been repudiated. Holy… — A.W. Tozer 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
I've gotten a lot of comfort from the philosophy of the Roman Stoics. For me, one of the most powerful ideas of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
My parents, Arthur and Olwen, were honest, working-class people who raised my brother Arthur, sister June, and me with the values of… — David Jason Copy Share Image
“I walked the length of the ward, towards the exit with what I imagined to be the stoic, dignified stride of a… — Rob Grimes Copy Share Image
“If you haven’t learned something From periods of suffering, If you haven’t wrung the juices Of your own pain and drank them… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
Now, as never before, hundreds of millions of men and women-who had formerly believed that stoic resignation in the face of hunger… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with… — Walt Whitman 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man? To welcome with affection what is sent by… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Difficulty is the foundation of growth, which is the foundation of greatness.” — @Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand. — Jamie Ford Copy Share Image
“In love. In love with the stoic, the sullen, the eternally morose Varen Nethers? He would never allow it.” — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Life is yet to produce someone who is loved by or important to everyone.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.” — Perry Anderson Copy Share Image
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![“And here we determine the άκμή [acme], i.e. perfect state, of the nations, which is enjoyed when the sciences, disciplines and arts, all of which draw their being from religion and the law, are in service to religion and the law. Hence when the nations conduct themselves in a different way, as…” quote by Giambattista Vico](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b2/giambattista-vico-24320_art_and-here-we-determine-the-acme-i-e-perfe_376482.png)
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