top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own."
Author Name
Personal Development
"He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."
Hope
"Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?"
Wisdom
"Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things."
Courage
"A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities."
Humor
"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."
Life
"There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men."
Philosophy
"Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds."
Life
"There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause: - through infancy's unconscious spell, boyhood's thoughtless faith, adolescence' doubt (the common doom). and then scepticism, then disbelief, resting at last in manhood's pondering repose of If."
Philosophy
"The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating them, till they are left living with half a heart and half a lung."
Literature
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."
Fear
bottom of page