Quotes About Stoicism

Les stoïciens ont voulu soutenir que nos passions dépendent entièrement de notre volonté, et que nous pouvons les gouverner avec une autorité sans bornes; mais l'expérience les a contraint d'avouer, en dépit de leurs principes, qu'il ne faut pas peu de soins et d'habitude pour contenir et régler nos passions .

Reading Epictetus, I realized that most of the pain in my life came not from any actual privations or insults but, rather, from the shame of thinking that they could have been avoided.

Women have a real talent for bearing up under hard times.

When you have no choice, you must just buckle down to misfortune Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and wait.

and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse–hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.

Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use.

What a nonsensical thing it would be in me to allow myself to become alarmed by a trifle such as murder!

I've made a professional reputation playing working-class, middle-class, American women. There's a real sense of stoicism and pragmatism and strength and lyricism of a woman like that.

My parents, Arthur and Olwen, were honest, working-class people who raised my brother Arthur, sister June, and me with the values of that era - patriotism, stoicism, honesty, concern for your neighbours, and judging a man by what he did rather than what he had.

I have a high tolerance for pain - both physical and mental.

I have a high tolerance for pain.

Weep all the artful tears you like. You shall never make my hard heart the softer.

this is what a command is. Staring consequences in the eye and pretending not to flinch.

Cowards die many times before their deaths, da valiant never taste of death but once, eh?" The quote came out of nowhere, so random it made Magnus lower the torch. "I'm shocked. You know Julius Caesar?

I'm fine I said for the 2,467th time this semester. (I know. I was keeping count)

This was how I was dealing with everyone and everything lately, taking the good when it came, and the bad the same way, knowing each would pass in its own time.

It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.

Oh man sometimes I wake up feel like a cat runover. Are you familiar with the stoical aspects of hard drinking, of heavy drinking? Oh it's heavy. Oh it's hard. It isn't easy. Jesus, I never meant me any harm. All I wanted was a good time.

what penalty can frighten a man who is not afraid of death itself?

The wise man does not seek pleasure but freedom from care and pain.

Yohannes D. Asega > My Quotes (showing 1-1 of 1) sort by ? top up up position down down ? bottom Remove this quote from your collectionArthur Schopenhauer "We, the salt of the earth, should endeavor to follow, by never letting anything disturb us in the pursuit of our intellectual life, however much the storm of the world may invade and agitate our personal environment.

Recuerda que en tiempos arduos hay que conservar la ecuanimidad, lo mismo que en buenos un ánimo que domina prudentemente la alegría excesiva.» Horacio, Carmina, II, 3]

I admired Grenville's ability to brush aside bad encounters and continue serenely with his day, as though no one could possibly upset him. Perhaps he was practiced because he'd been raised to it, but I'd never learned the art of it, and doubted I ever would.

neither flushed nor pale.