Quotes About Stoicism

But you will bear your sickness more easily both with quiet, and with a noble temper, for it is necessary for mortals to suffer misery.

Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!

Since all stoicism is really just a harsher form of epicureanism, I want as far as possible to enjoy my misfortune.

The truly wise man is the one who can keep external events from changing him in any way. To do this, he covers himself with an armour of realities closer to him than the world's facts and through which the facts, modified accordingly, reach him. 98.

O meu estoicismo é uma necessidade orgânica. Preciso de me couraçar contra a vida. Como todo o estoicismo não passa de um epicurismo severo, desejo, quanto possível, fazer que a minha desgraça me divirta

In general, men weep little and, when they do complain, they make literature out of it.

il Destino è una specie di persona, e smette di tormentarci se mostriamo indifferenti a quello che ci fa.

I accept injustice as I accept a stone not being round

Since all stoicism is really just a harsher form of epicureanism

Vicente Guedes endured his empty life with masterly indifference, the foundations of his mental attitude being built on the stoicism of the weak.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

I'm not a terribly popular person in life. I can handle that.

Some people don't like me at all. But... whatever. It comes with the territory.

No, sir. I won't complain. Except when I move it sharp and sudden, my arm is real numb. It's the rest of me that's in misery." "Where?" "My backside and my privates. I'm stuck so full of prickers, it makes me smart just to think on it.

The trend these days is short suffering

Su voz sonó tranquila, como la de un hombre que sabe que la vida siempre acaba mal y que no vale la pena exaltarse...

I accepted their ridicule by sulking manfully.

I could do as my father did: that is, lift my eyes and meet her gaze and let nothing of what I was thinking show in my face.

Never to whine; to accept what came; to wait for better; to take what you could; to let no one, not even yourself, know how near to giving in you were.

Don't rehearse your problems, Dad always said. Meaning, we were only supposed to go through our problems when they were actually upon us.

We have what we can hold, dear boy, and never let them see you flinch or falter.

It didn't seem fair, but then, a lot of things aren't. We take them as they come.

supreme test of all he would endure, without complaint