Quotes About Stoicism

Die jonge Vrouwe Alyss van jullie, die zit daar als een eiland van rust en verstand in een stormzee vol botsende golven. Zij heeft geduld, heel veel geduld. Alhoewel ik een paar keer het idee kreeg dat zij op het punt stond mijn onderhandelaar met een stapel van zijn paperassen om de oren te slaan. - Selethen

How can you stay so calm?" It helps if you're terrified.

Rinaldo Barlassina, one of the most prominent italian referees at the time, was the victim of stone throwing during a match at Casale. After refusing to give a penalty, Barlassina used an umbrella to protect himself and he emerged unhurt. Ghirelli comments that 'it is unclear if this was thanks to his stoicism or to the fact that the stones had run out'.

I fear neither death nor fire, being prepared for both.

life sucks, and I am pretty sure Fate hates me. But there is nothing I can do about any of that.

I'm a man of stone - and my hands are not soft enough to brush away, each stray wisp of hair

In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn't be solved by being ignored.

Nils might face death with equanimity, but not lameness. And because he never spoke of it, never complained, it would go harder for him than Own, who could swear freely about his missing fingers, and pity himself intensely and eloquently.

You should see the other guy..." Teddy says, in this laconic tone that matches her black kimono. She takes a drag on a joint, barely glancing up from the crossword, which she always does in pen.

What cannot be cured must be endured, and Tristen excelled at enduring.

The Mebd is unimpressed by suffering.

Morgan's face gave away nothing, smooth as a mirror.

Arms folded across her rib cage, chin drifted, Perceval could have been a statue labeled defiance.

Admit nothing. An iron dignity is an unbroachable defense.

See? You're using the stoic glacier method." "Remind me, what's the stoic glacier method?" "It's the slow process of shaping someone's behavior by force of one's own personal stoicism.

Seneca's solution to life's inevitable cruelties was to withdraw. It was an increasingly attractive reaction in the later imperial age. The wise man must shun unnecessary human contact and connections, Seneca said. He must live within, and for, himself. He must cultivate the virtue of apatheia, literally an indifference to the fate of others—apathy even, in the last moment, to his own fate (faced by unjust accusations by the emperor Nero, Seneca and his wife chose suicide).

Beginning with their founder, Zeno, the Stoics taught that the key to the happy life is adhering to a strict sense of virtue and a rigid duty toward others rather than indulging in pleasure, and a renunciation of, or at least an indifference to, all worldly goods.

Tal vez su condición de viejo soldado —había peleado en Flandes y el Mediterráneo tras escapar de la escuela para alistarse como paje y tambor a los trece años— dejó impresa en él aquella manera tan suya de encajar el riesgo, los malos tragos, las incertidumbres y sinsabores de una vida bronca, difícil, con el estoicismo de quien se acostumbra a no esperar otra cosa.

el truco en el oficio de las armas es aceptar que ya estás muerto. Asumirlo con indiferencia.

And remember, you shall suffer all things and again suffer: until you have sufficient sufferance to accept all things.

To seek to extinguish anger utterly, is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Anger must be limited and confined, both in race and in time. We will first speak how the natural inclination and habit to be angry, may be attempted and calmed. Secondly, how the particular motions of anger may be repressed, or at least refrained from doing mischief. Thirdly, how to raise anger, or appease anger in another.

I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.

Stoicism is a philosophy designed for the masses, and if it has to be simplified a bit to reach the masses, so be it.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.