Quotes About Stoicism

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.

Each one's destiny cannot be altered.

It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.

But it's no good letting your emotions get the better of you.

She was a woman who let life happen to her without troubling her mind about things more than was necessary.

tightly drawn into a mask of endurance.

Do not scratch when itched, nor shift when cramped, nor pause when tired.

My admiration for Britannicus grew as I watched the uncomplaining manner in which he accepted the injustice and the inefficiency and inconvenience being heaped upon him by incompetent superiors.

La felicidad cabe en tres principios, a cuál más simple: vivir en el presente, valerte solo de ti mismo para ser feliz y permanecer impasible ante la adversidad.

He is giving a show, I know, of grace, of tolerance, and my teeth clench at the calmness in his tone. He likes this image of himself, the wronged young man, stoically accepting the theft of his prize, a martyrdom for the whole camp to see.

Most of our caste in this country, if they only knew it, are Confucian rather than Christian. Belief in ancestors, and tradition, respect for parents, honesty, moderation of conduct, kind treatment of animals and dependents, absence of self-obtrusion, and stoicism in face of pain and death.

Roberta se quedó estoicamente sentada, con las manos debajo de las piernas.

Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.

[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.

The easiest way to not get hurt is to not care, but thats the hardest thing to do.

Tired of being lied to so I guess ima have to start thinking like a boy again. fu.. emotions!

I may not show my feelings to everyone but it doesn't mean that I'm not affected by the things that surround me.

You see, she says to him, you cannot change what you are given, cannot bend or alter what is dealt to you.

Philip managed a reasonably good impersonation of British POW ignoring a flesh wound.

Never, ever allow yourself to feel. Feelings kill.

The Stoics were essentially pantheists, since they maintained that as there is nothing better than the world, the world is God.

not being able to govern events, I govern myself." ~ Michel de Montaigne