Quotes Tagged With :stoic

My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate,....

But is life really worth so much? Let us examine this; it's a different inquiry. We will offer no solace....

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that....

It was as if I'd lost some cosmic game of musical chairs; the song had stopped, I was left standing,....

Il ne fait aucun doute pour moi que la sagesse est le but principal de la vie et c'est pourquoi je reviens....

Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something....

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to....

Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits

But Moominmamma was quite unperturbed. "Well, well!" she said, "it seems to me that our guests are having....

Now this was possible only by a man determining himself entirely *rationally* according to concepts,....