“The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.”
Quotes about stoicism
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“The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”
“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”
“A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.”
“For greed all nature is too little.”
“Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.”
“What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.”
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”
“To live happily is an inward power of the soul.”
“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”
“Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.”
“Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.”
“Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.”
“How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.”
“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”
“Time discovers truth.”
“I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.”
“No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.”
“We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.”
“In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.”
“In war there is no prize for runner-up.”
“No man was ever wise by chance.”