Stoics Quotes
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Stoics Quotes & Sayings
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The medical definition of miracle is misdiagnosis.
— Stephen King
Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
— Thomas Carlyle
Writers are remembered for their best work, politicians for their worst mistakes, and businessmen are almost never remembered.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Well, that's what I still think, but I am in a rut at work--I hate my job,' I said, allowing my emotions to find words.
— Luke Lively
A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.
— Jenny Offill
Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Above all, the Stoics sought wisdom, a condition that I myself hope to achieve after I stop wrecking and burning things.
— James K. Morrow
All their principles are true, sceptics, stoics, atheists, etc...but their conclusions are false, because the contrary principles are also true.
— Blaise Pascal
There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.
— Christian Lacroix
Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.
— Philip Sidney
Let the Stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
And Englishmen like posing as gods.
— E. M. Forster
Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes.
— Vance Havner
The Stoics forbid this emotion to their sages as being base and cowardly.
— Michel De Montaigne
Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower.
— Marcus Aurelius
How, after all, can we convince ourselves to want the things we already have? THE STOICS THOUGHT they had an answer to this question.
— William B. Irvine
sidewalk, waited until the butt cooled, and
— Jonathan Kellerman
No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.
— Seneca The Younger
There are no short cuts. If you want to do something special, there's a serious price to pay. There's no way around it.
— Tom Thibodeau
