Stoic Quotes

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.

A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.

He who despises life is his life's master.

The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?

You've got to figure out what works best for you. That's the hard part. I know I can't play as stoic as Hogan, and I can't talk as much as Trevino. You have to be your own person.

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

It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.

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.

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

stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

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

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