Quotes About Stoicism

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 wrath.'

The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.

All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to.

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.

There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

You might as well take your punishment and get it over with

But that's the part of it I always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling.

A neutral and affectless silence. The sort of all-defensive game Schtitt used to have me play: the best defense: let everything bounce off you; do nothing. I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear.

Pour on, I will endure.

For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.

Kaç?n?lmaz felaketler kar??s?nda s?zlanmak, gülmek kadar aptalcad?r.

She sat like patience on a monument smiling at grief.

I pray thee, peace. I will be flesh and blood, For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently, However they have writ the style of gods And made a push at chance and sufferance.

pain may be inevitable but suffering is optional.

The Empress of Blandings was a pig who took things as they came. Her motto, like Horace's, was nil admirari.

Yes, sir,' said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten in the leg by a personal friend.

Tiene la paciencia de un escusado: ni habla, ni se mueve, ni reclama. Entiende que más tarde o más temprano le va a caer su mojón.

No sir, I don't know why, but my eyes don't cry no more.

What can you do but, as Cicero says, live hopefully, die bravely?

Christophe says, 'You are not sad, sir?' 'No. I am not sad. I am not allowed to be. I am too useful to be sad.

Hazel never cried. She was forged from iron; she never broke.

Another girl might have frozen, but I am cold all the way through.

La resignación es un suicidio cotidiano.

Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this, either by prayers or spells. Children cry about it, but men and women do not cry. They have to endure.