Quotes About Stoicism

you cried, they tried to comfort you. But if you were stony faced they let you alone.

Siempre he creído que uno debe aceptar la vida tal como es, pero siempre y cuando no tenga remedio.

It would be easy to call it quits. Occasionally I have these moments, not often. There is nothing to do but sit still until they pass. Tantrums and passions I don't need, endurance is what I need. I have found that it is even possible to take a certain pleasure out of submission to necessity. That have I borne, this can I bear also.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out of doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us

Todo placer es una cosa buena, mas no todo placer debe ser perseguido; y, paralelamente, todo dolor es un mal, pero no todo dolor debe ser evitado a cualquier precio. En todo caso, es conveniente decidir sobre estas cuestiones comparando y examinando atentamente lo que es útil y lo que no lo es, porque a veces usamos un bien como si fuera un mal, y un mal como si fuera un bien.41

The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don't react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.

seeing how small our affairs look in the larger scheme of things, the Stoic means to induce a felt sense of humility and attraction to virtue. The method can be called intuitive because it isn't a matter of argument. It's more a question of showing and pointing, and expecting perceptions and adjustments to follow directly from a new point of view.

Stoic needs a good sense of humor.

Do not disturb yourself by imagining your whole life at once. Don't always be thinking about what sufferings, and how many, might possibly befall you. Ask instead, in each present circumstance: "What is there about this that is unendurable and unbearable?" You will be embarrassed to answer. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.36

When a steadfast mind knows that there is no difference between a day and an age, whatever the days or events that may come, then it can look out from the heights and laugh as it reflects on the succession of the ages. Seneca, Epistles 101.9

hace falta mucha más entereza para manifestar emociones que para reprimirlas.

Never let them see you sweat. Nicole Grant, former dating guru and A-list matchmaker, knew it was a bad sign when the philosophy you were living by came from a deodorant commercial.

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy." You have to love those words "very miserable"; Schopenhauer could not be content with simply saying "unhappy" as Epicurus did.

Epicurus said something similar when he wrote, "Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Do with him what you will. I'm not going to cry over a little spilled blood. Just make certain none of it splashes on me.

absent pleasures are not bad

So what Epictetus was telling his students was that there can be no such thing as being the "victim" of another. You can only be a "victim" of yourself. It's all in how you discipline your mind. Who

So make sure in your heart of hearts, in your inner self, that you treat your station in life with indifference, not with contempt, only with indifference.

What are the benefits of a Stoic life?" I would probably say, "It is an ancient and honorable package of advice on how to stay out of the clutches of those who are trying to get you on the hook, trying to give you a feeling of obligation, trying to get moral leverage on you, to force you to bend to their will.

Above all, the Stoics sought wisdom, a condition that I myself hope to achieve after I stop wrecking and burning things.

I was fairly sure this death had affected him more than he let show. Then again, I suspect that Julian's cheery, Socratic indifference to matters of life and death kept him from feeling too sad about anything for very long.

Well—very Russian, you know, to complain how bad things are all the time! Even if life is great—keep it to yourself. You don't want to tempt the devil.

Jerott, his face frowning with sleeplessness, was looking at Richard, this powerful man with the brilliant grey eyes who had not contemplated bereavement with stoicism but was rebelling, as Sybilla was not rebelling, against what he had found.

Level-headed and constructive to the end,' Philippa said, 'in confronting all your personal problems. And now? A trifle of hemlock?