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"He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires."
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"I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips."
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"I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery."
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"Whatever this is that I am, it is a little flesh and breath, and the ruling part. Throw away thy books; no longer distract thyself: it is not allowed; but as if thou wast now dying, despise the flesh; it is blood and bones and a network, a contexture of nerves, veins, and arteries. See the breath also, what kind of a thing it is, air, and not always the same, but every moment sent out and again sucked in. The third then is the ruling part: consider thus: Thou art an old man; no longer let this be a slave, no longer be pulled by the strings like a puppet to unsocial movements, no longer be either dissatisfied with thy present lot, or shrink from the future."
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"There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
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"Striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm."
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"Here is your great soul-the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself."
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"Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery."
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"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
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"Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate."
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"I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery."
Stoicism
"Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained."
Space
"One of my problems is to find the self."
Problems
"Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life."
Life
"I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality."
Reality
"There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality."
Hate
"Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space."
Art
"What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art."
Art
"Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement."
Achievement
"It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!"
Music
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