#stoicism — Public Fediverse posts
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Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Two elements must therefore be rooted out once for all—the fear of future suffering, and the recollection of past suffering; since the latter no longer concerns me, and the former concerns me not yet."
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"Two elements must therefore be rooted out once for all—the fear of future suffering, and the recollection of past suffering; since the latter no longer concerns me, and the former concerns me not yet."
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"Two elements must therefore be rooted out once for all—the fear of future suffering, and the recollection of past suffering; since the latter no longer concerns me, and the former concerns me not yet."
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"Two elements must therefore be rooted out once for all—the fear of future suffering, and the recollection of past suffering; since the latter no longer concerns me, and the former concerns me not yet."
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"Two elements must therefore be rooted out once for all—the fear of future suffering, and the recollection of past suffering; since the latter no longer concerns me, and the former concerns me not yet."
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""If the room is smoky, if only moderately, I will stay; if there is too much smoke I will go. Remember this, keep a firm hold on it, the door is always open.""
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""If the room is smoky, if only moderately, I will stay; if there is too much smoke I will go. Remember this, keep a firm hold on it, the door is always open.""
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"“It is nothing—a trifling matter at most; keep a stout heart and it will soon cease”; then in thinking it slight, you will make it slight. Everything depends on opinion; ambition, luxury, greed, hark back to opinion. It is according to opinion that we suffer."
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"You will die, not because you are ill, but because you are alive; even when you have been cured, thesame end awaits you; when you have recovered, it will be not death, but ill health, that you have escaped."
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"There is no sorrow in the world, when we have escaped from the fear of death."
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If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
— Marcus Aurelius
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If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
— Marcus Aurelius
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"What else is there which you would regret to have taken from you? Friends? But who can be a friend to you? Country? What? Do you think enough of your country to be late to dinner? The light of the sun? You would extinguish it, if you could; for what have you ever done that was fit to be seen in the light?"
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"So near at hand is freedom, and is anyone still a slave?"
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"Would you not think him an utter fool who wept because he was not alive a thousand years ago? And is he not just as much of a fool who weeps because he will not be alive a thousand years from now? It is all the same; you will not be, and you were not. Neither of these periods of time belongs to you."
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"But the wise man knows that all things are in store for him. Whatever happens, he says: “I knew it.”"
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Wise words satisfy like a good meal;
the right words bring satisfaction.— Proverbs 18:20
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Wise words satisfy like a good meal;
the right words bring satisfaction.— Proverbs 18:20
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"But no wall can be erected against Fortune which she cannot take by storm; let us strengthen our inner defences. If the inner part be safe, man can be attacked, but never captured."
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"Do you ask me whom I have conquered? Neither the Persians, nor the far-off Medes, nor any warlike race that lies beyond the Dahae; not these, but greed, ambition, and the fear of death that has conquered the conquerors of the world."
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"Do you ask me whom I have conquered? Neither the Persians, nor the far-off Medes, nor any warlike race that lies beyond the Dahae; not these, but greed, ambition, and the fear of death that has conquered the conquerors of the world."
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"Do you ask me whom I have conquered? Neither the Persians, nor the far-off Medes, nor any warlike race that lies beyond the Dahae; not these, but greed, ambition, and the fear of death that has conquered the conquerors of the world."
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"Do you ask me whom I have conquered? Neither the Persians, nor the far-off Medes, nor any warlike race that lies beyond the Dahae; not these, but greed, ambition, and the fear of death that has conquered the conquerors of the world."
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"Do you ask me whom I have conquered? Neither the Persians, nor the far-off Medes, nor any warlike race that lies beyond the Dahae; not these, but greed, ambition, and the fear of death that has conquered the conquerors of the world."
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"Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan."
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"Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan."
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"He knows his own strength; he knows that he was born to carry burdens."
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"He knows his own strength; he knows that he was born to carry burdens."
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"He knows his own strength; he knows that he was born to carry burdens."
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"He knows his own strength; he knows that he was born to carry burdens."
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"He knows his own strength; he knows that he was born to carry burdens."
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"Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind."
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"Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind."
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"These actions are not essentially difficult; it is we ourselves that are soft and flabby."
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"These actions are not essentially difficult; it is we ourselves that are soft and flabby."
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"These actions are not essentially difficult; it is we ourselves that are soft and flabby."
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"These actions are not essentially difficult; it is we ourselves that are soft and flabby."
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"These actions are not essentially difficult; it is we ourselves that are soft and flabby."
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"No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."
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"No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."
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Not a single thing that is done on earth happens without you, God,
Nor in the divine heavenly sphere nor in the sea,
Except for what bad people do in their foolishness.— Cleanthes
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
— Epictetus
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self
— Aristotle
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Don’t hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.
— Epictetus
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
— Viktor Frankl
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Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life.
— Gautama Buddha
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