Valour and glory are a ponderous virtue. As to say, both virtues are stoic traits. Two words, that are complex but these… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic… — William James Copy Share Image
“You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Most people celebrate the continuity of their existence so passionately that you would swear they chose to exist.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“We might never rid ourselves of a lingering anxiety regarding our death; this is a kind of tax we pay in return… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Death itself is a natural occurrence, it is unavoidable, and the Stoics thought that part of philosophical practice is to get comfortable… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
In my mind, there is no reason why Stoicism shouldn't become as popular as Buddhism, especially in the Western world, where the… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“To me, the persistence of my grandfather's rituals meant that he was unchanged, running on discipline and continuance and stoicism. I didn't… — Téa Obreht Copy Share Image
“The world might rage around, yet within the Stoic’s mind, a tranquil sea prevails. The Stoic remains anchored, not carried away by… — Kevin L. Michel Copy Share Image
“It’s kind of a stoic life, to survive strictly on your obsessions. It’s also kind of religious, sometimes. You could say that… — Roland Kelts 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;… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“Here is your great soul—the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling… — Seneca Copy Share Image
CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“They did this to me but I have remained who I am. I am tempered. I am able. Inside myself there's an… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“The Stoics define wisdom to be conducted by reason, and folly nothing else but the being hurried by passion, lest our life… — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus Copy Share Image
“It is the kind of stoicism which had been seen as characteristic of Anglo-Saxon poetry, perhaps nowhere better expressed than in 'The… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Each of us is impermanent wave of energy folded into the infinite cosmic order. Acknowledgement of the fundamental impermanence of ourselves unchains… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Bohr is really doing what the Stoic allegorists did to close the gap between their world and Homer's, or what St. Augustine… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Limiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope … and you will cease to fear.’ … Widely… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“(On stoicism) "As a matter of fact, the experiment has already started. Yesterday at lunch I had a smaller piece of pecan… — James Morrow Copy Share Image
Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy, and… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“You will never see me surrender, never see me cry, but you will often see me walk away. Turn around and just… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.” Epictetus” — Change Your Life Publishing Copy Share Image
“The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The Christian is not a Stoic. Neither does he flee into a fantasy world that denies the reality of suffering.” — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“The man who looks for the morrow without worrying over it knows a peaceful independence and a happiness beyond all others. Whoever… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“You say there is but one way to worship the Great Spirit. If there is but one religion, why do you white… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Be stoic when necessary and write-you have seen a lot, felt deeply, and your problems are universal enough to be made meaningful-WRITE.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“When others inspire us, they tend to do so through the clear expression of these sketchy, adumbrated thoughts we ourselves have known… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
“Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Copy Share Image
“He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
![“Limiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope … and you will cease to fear.’ … Widely different [as fear and hope] are, the two of them march in unison like a prisoner and the escort he is handcuffed to. Fear keeps pace with hope … both belong to a mind in suspense, to…” quote by Lucius Annaeus Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/871/lucius-annaeus-seneca-3079_anxiety_limiting-one-s-desires-actually-helps-to_1947045.jpg)
