Quotes About Stoicism

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

And he is by no means apt to make laments about things which cannot be helped, or requests about those which are trivial; because to be thus disposed with respect to these things is consequent only upon real anxiety about them.

Well, what are we to do now? asked MacDonald with some gruffness. Possess our souls in patience and make as little noise as possible, Holmes answered.

Nothing is hard to do unless you get upset or excited about it.

Then she gave him a few good smacks in the face. These he accepted like a philosopher.

It would be unmanly to complain against the faith I had chosen.

For death is gain to him whose life, like mine, is full of misery

Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.

Comply, and fear not, for my load of woe Is incommunicable to all but me.

That's life and you can't change anything, you know.

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.

The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

Only very few people can remain unruffled by trouble.

Why worry about things you have no control over?

un etica che gli imponeva di offrire al mondo tiranno visi sempre inespressivi, rigidi e spenti.

it is good for a man to do right, and to leave happiness to take care of itself...

when she was pregnant, so Nan was born in a workhouse. She never talked about it, but it seemed to have left her as someone nothing could faze,

A suferi e modul de a fi activ fara sa faci ceva.

Il ne fait aucun doute pour moi que la sagesse est le but principal de la vie et c'est pourquoi je reviens toujours aux stoïciens. Ils ont atteint la sagesse, on ne peut donc plus les appeler des philosophes au sens propre du terme. De mon point de vue, la sagesse est le terme naturel de la philosophie, sa fin dans les deux sens du mot. Une philosophie finit en sagesse et par là même disparaît.

Stoicism for show: to be an enthusiast of nil admirari, an hysteric of ataraxia.

Overrun on every side, stoicism, faithful to its principles, had the elegance to die without a struggle.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.