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• As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Pain, Soul, Injury

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• To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel.

  Julian Baggini

  Views, World, Accepting

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• The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary through despair.

  Bertrand Russell

  Despair, Grows, Weary

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• Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.

  Seneca the Younger

  Motivational, Men, Thinking

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• To be a good sportsman, one must be a stoic and never show rancor in defeat, or triumph in victory, or irritation, no matter what annoyance is encountered. One who can not help sulking, or explaining, or protesting when the loser, or exulting when the winner, has no right to take part in games or contests.

  Emily Post

  Sports, Games, Irritation

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.529, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter of things -- to which the Stoic strictly adheres -- but in looking up to the spirit of things; in absolute contempt of all economic values and political splendor, and in courageous defence of the rights of independent freedom; then Christianity would be nothing but universal cynicism.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Independent, Rights

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• It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Pain, Men, Want

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• An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

  Johan Huizinga

  Attitude, Sober Up, Expression

  Johan Huizinga (2014). “Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance”, p.47, Princeton University Press

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• The guy behind the counter scratches his neck. “Are you being serious?” Her face is stoic. “Absolutely. I never kid about teddy bears.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Kids, Guy, Scratches

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.91, Hachette UK

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• After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.

  Jamie Ford

  Emotional, Lifetime, Fluent

  Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.80, Allison & Busby

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• So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Men, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• The Stoic discipline of action, which is connected to the virtue of justice, says that we ought to treat others fairly and we should engage in social and political activity. This is further supported by the Stoic idea of cosmopolitanism, and by the famous "circles of concern" identified by Hierocles, who counseled that we should refer to other people as brothers and sisters, to constantly remind ourselves that we are members of the same human family.

  Massimo Pigliucci

  Brother, Discipline, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Yeah, and so Max and Dylan are supposed to, like, go to Germany and have kids together," I heard Gazzy say. My eyes popped open and I bolted upright. "What?" Fang said, his voice icy. "Gazzy!" I yelled. Wide blue eyes looked at me in surprise, then back at Fang's stoic face. "Oh. Was I not supposed to say anything?" Gazzy asked.

  James Patterson

  Kids, Eye, Blue

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• The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Soul, Essentials, Killers

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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• Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Motto, Knows

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• I've sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don't need sauce. I know he doesn't even want you to pour sauce. And I've seen customers come in and do that, and I've seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I've seen him die a little inside.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Guy, Trying, Sauce

  "Anthony Bourdain Is Ready To 'Get Jiro' With His New Food Focused Graphic Novel". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 26, 2012.

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• Even the most stoic of men will be childlike at least once in a day.

  Claire Bloom

  Men, Childlike

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• I don't see any Stoic practice as problematic or risky, but I would advise to engage in extreme versions of the negative visualization exercise only if you are an advanced practitioner. The negative visualization is a meditation during which you visualize, slowly and deliberately, something bad or discomforting happening to you.

  Massimo Pigliucci

  Exercise, Meditation, Negative

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Way, Action, Obstacles

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.162, Modern Library

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• Normal people think we're highly dependent and can't live without ongoing support, but in fact there are times when we're stoic heroes.

  Naoki Higashida

  Hero, Thinking, People

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• If I were a person of color in Florida, I would pick up a brick and start walking toward that courthouse in Sanford. Those that do not, those that hold the pain and betrayal inside and somehow manage to resist violence - these citizens are testament to a stoic tolerance that is more than the rest of us deserve. I confess, their patience and patriotism is well beyond my own.

  David Simon

  Pain, Betrayal, Florida

  "David Simon On George Zimmerman Verdict: I’m ‘Ashamed’ To Identify As American" by Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2013.

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• A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.

  Will Durant

  Civilization, Born, Epicurean

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• Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  School, Way, Lips

  Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.89, David C Cook

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• He [Ryan white] spoke to me that my life was out of order. My life was a mess. I had no values anymore. And he was so stoic with his infection. He wasn't bitter. He wasn't angry. He just was a kid. He wanted to go to school and play football, drive his car. And he had no bitterness about him.

  Elton John

  Football, School, Kids

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm a really stoic artist. I'm serious a lot of times. I can joke and play sometimes, but most of the time, I'm stoic.

  LeCrae

  Artist, Play, Serious

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

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