Tag: stoicism
9 quotes
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Nowhere can man find retirement more peaceful and untroubled than in his own soul.
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No man was ever wise by chance.
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There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
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Cease not to think of the Universe as one living Being, possessed of a single Substance and a single Soul; and how all things trace back to its single sentience; and how it does all things by a single impulse; and how all existing things are joint…
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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ONE ART The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the flusterof lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing…
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Will I not walk in the footsteps of my predecessors? I will indeed use the ancient roadbut if I find another route that is more direct and has fewer ups and downs, I will stake out that one. Those who advanced these doctrines before us are not our…
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Some things are within our power, while others are not. Within our power are opinion, motivation, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever is of our own doing; not within our power are our body, our property, reputation, office, and, in a word,…
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You could be good today. But instead, you choose tomorrow.