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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… — Oswald Chambers
- In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost. — Alexander Pope
- Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness. — Philip Sidney
- At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided… — Svante Arrhenius
- 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
- Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these… — Jenny Offill
- The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go… — Blaise Pascal
- No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing. — Seneca the Younger
- Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility… — Marcus Aurelius
- 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
- In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast;… — Alexander Pope