Let a man accept
Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears. Euripides
Stoicism
First say to yourself
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Epictetus
He is a wise
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. Epictetus
The critics could never
The critics could never mortify me out of heart – because I love poetry for its own sake, – and, tho’ with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I\\’ve gotten a lot
I’ve gotten a lot of comfort from the philosophy of the Roman Stoics. For me, one of the most powerful ideas of Stoicism is that you can’t pick or choose in the world what you want to happen and what you don’t want to happen, and that actually if you did get to choose, the … Read more
Pantagruelism is a certain
Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune. Francois Rabelais
The average man is
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. Colin Wilson
Hillary Clinton appears to
Hillary Clinton appears to believe in a form of stoicism – which is a tried and true life philosophy. Christina Hoff Sommers
A Christian builds his
A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best. Charles Caleb Colton
We may say, in
We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that Stoicism is appropriate to a cosmopolitan despotism; that stochastic philosophy is an intellectual expression of the Church as an organization; that philosophy since Descartes, or at any rate since Locke, tends to embody … Read more