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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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"She would only make me take my seat if I didn't act calm and Swiss about it all."
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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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"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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"Worrying about things you cannot control is folly. Focus only on those few things you have any control over, and your life becomes much simpler."
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"My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable."
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"Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own."
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"Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?' You would be ashamed to confess it! And then remind yourself that it is not the future or what has passed that afflicts you, but always the present, and the power of this is much diminished if you take it in isolation and call your mind to task if it thinks that it cannot stand up to it when taken on its own."
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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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"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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"I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones."
Sense
"I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality."
Reality
"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
"Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement."
Achievement
"I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective."
Love
"There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality."
Hate
"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
"I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting."
Painting
"Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained."
Space
"I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality."
Love
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