Quotes About Stoic

I'm not sensitive.

I'm not a sentimental guy.

Nothing can shock me.

I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!

Some guys, nothing bothers them. Eli Manning is one of those players.

undemonstrative in a burly fat-pig style

La impresión espartana que transmitía correspondería a su naturaleza o a su bolsillo.

I'm pathologically calm.

I take after my dad in the calm and measured way he approaches situations.

Nquitia ipsa poena su est. (Publilius

he didn't feel pity for Macleod, despite all the humiliations and infirmities visited upon him. These he regarded as inevitabilities; indeed, he nowadays regarded most things that happened as inevitabilities.

Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

Even the most stoic of men will be childlike at least once in a day.

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

To find and enjoy profound happiness, learn from nature and emulate her stoic calmness.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

How much should a Stoic grieve? In proper grief, Seneca tells Polybius, our reason "will maintain a mean which will copy neither indifference nor madness, and will keep us in the state that is the mark of an affectionate, and not an unbalanced, mind.

The Stoics became experts on argument forms, such as "If A, then B; but A, therefore B" or "Either A or B; but not A, therefore B." These argument forms, which are called modus ponens and modus tollendo ponens, respectively, are still used by logicians.

Morris had been raised a Mennonite stoic in a tribe that wasn't a tribe at all, but more a failed cult whose main sources of entertainment were music, wordplay, and suffering.

In the shimmering ignorance of illiteracy of compassion and faith the stoic desire of loving without temporal gains rules the hearts and minds in deeds and care

Refusing help of others can be seen as stoic and stubborn, and condescending too. And sometimes makes the life of those who would help you more difficult. You could ease their days by letting them make sure you're thriving.

But that's what the English mean, isn't it, when they say, He was very philosophical about it? They mean that someone stopped thinking about something.

There have been seasons in the history of the human race, melancholy seasons for the human mind, the "evil days" spoken of by Milton, when men of letters could not, with any self-respect, mix in politics. How much more highly we should think of Seneca if that literary Stoic had not been a minister of Nero.