Quotes About Stoicism

for my own part I cannot cordially approve, I merely tolerate, a philosopher who talks of setting bounds to the desires. Is it possible for desire to be kept within bounds? It ought to be destroyed, uprooted altogether.

She doesn't think it's a good idea to know the future, because you can hardly ever change it, so why suffer twice?

Malum quidem nullum esse sine aliquo bono, Tin noted in the journal he was sporadically keeping then. Every cloud has a silver lining.

On the other hand, she had an uncanny resistance to physical pain: if she burnt her mouth or cut herself, as a rule she didn't cry. It was ill will, the ill will of the universe, that distressed her.

Junker children, girls as well, were brought up to be tough and bear pain uncomplainingly.

You look like you'd swallowed a ramrod and it isn't becoming-Rhett Butler

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude.

What can't be cured must be endured," said I

I have now reached the stage that I don't care much whether I live or die. The world will still keep on turning without me; what is going to happen, will happen, and anyway it's no good to resist.

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.

fear cannot exist when one is indifferent to life.

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

I don't cry in real life. I'm just pretty light and I don't get too heavy.

Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.

I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission.

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose.

Many rulers would have spent the morning complaining loudly about the cold and the discomfort, as if their complaints would actually serve to alleviate the situation and as if their attendants should be able to do something about it. Not the emperor. He accepted the situation knowing that he could do nothing to change the weather. Best to endure it without making life more difficult for those around him.

There was nothing he could do about it, so there was no point worrying about it.