“I hear my silence talked of in every lane; The suppression of a cry is itself a cry of pain.” — Darshan Singh Copy Share Image
“Well, and it is not my fault if I have not loved as one loves a concubine, since men do not.” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom. — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought. — Tullian Tchividjian 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
“A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
It's not in the nature of stoic Cincinnatians to boast, which is fortunate, really, for they have meager pickings to boast about. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The former breathes only peace and liberty; he desires only to live and be free from labor; even the ataraxia of the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
“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
To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.'… — Francis Bacon 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“Suddenly I know just what I’m going to do. Something that will blow anything Peeta did right out of the water. I… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“All this is, of course, the old philosophic distinction between reason and passion; but Spinoza adds vitally to Socrates and the Stoics.… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“As social beings, it is in our relationships that we have most opportunity to flourish. Indeed, the Stoics argued that our own… — Donald J. Robertson Copy Share Image
“The prevailing mood of the painting is stoicism: one man enduring for the sake of science, the other for subsistence. Given the… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“For the Stoics, however, the near impossibility of becoming a sage is not a problem. They talk about sages primarily so they… — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
“Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and merciful —… — Gai Eaton Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi Copy Share Image
“The wife of a junior officer cooped up in a horrible canvas partition in steerage for five months wrote: "I had enjoyed… — Stephen Taylor Copy Share Image
Before the 3rd century you're having several philosophical schools still as a going concern. You have not only the Platonists and the… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
“The man who seeks comfort will find chains; the one who embraces struggle will find wings.” — David Maze Copy Share Image
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” - Epictetus By” — Ali Martine Copy Share Image
“We live life passively whenever we are not practicing mindfulness.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.” — Seneca” — Paul Jun Copy Share Image
I can be very stoic looking, that's just my facial expression. I don't smile a lot. — Robert Parish Copy Share Image
“If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
