Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
EpicurusTags: philosophy stoic
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus AureliusTags: inspirational future reason worry stoic stoicism equanimity
At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.
Fernando PessoaTags: emptiness stoic void pessoa caeiro
To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand
SenecaI have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind
SenecaTags: life philosophy stoic
We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine and wine.
If breath of sun does belch its heat,
we boil coffee and prepare to eat.
Tags: day food sun moon night drinking balance seasons smoking stoic wine coffee eat roman times payne smoke
It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.
Marcus AureliusTags: morality ethics evil stoic stoicism asceticism renunciation
It is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.
SenecaTags: life inspirational fun stoic hardship stoicismism
There are times when a man should sleep entwined in the warm flesh of a woman, his flanks plummeting into the perfumed bedding while she lovingly rolls her sweet shoulders into his chest. Whereas, there are times to be stoic and solitary—sleeping alone on a wooden board with twill sheets and splinters that scratch the skin.
Roman PayneTags: solitude sex seasons stoic roman payne the-wanderess
Victrix causa deis placuit sed victa Catoni
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