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Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks…
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If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We…
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All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
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Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the…
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Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without…
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In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference…
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point…
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Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek…
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Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory…
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
— Alexander Pope
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Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.
— Philip Sidney
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At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided…
— Svante Arrhenius
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Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce…
— Oliver Burkeman
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Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these…
— Jenny Offill
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