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Stoics Quotes & Sayings

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The medical definition of miracle is misdiagnosis. — Stephen King

If the choices you make are not quality, don't put them on the top shelf. — T.F. Hodge

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

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost. — Alexander Pope

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

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence. — Oliver Goldsmith

Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness. — Philip Sidney

Certain places seem to exist mainly because someone has written about them. — Joan Didion

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

We Stoics are not subjects of a despot: each of us lays claim to his own freedom. — Seneca.

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

I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love. — Taylor Cole

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

Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found? — Marcus Aurelius

To all the defiant stoics, laughing and fighting lonesome battles in the face of adversity. — Kin F. Kam