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He who despises life is his life's master.
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?
Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.
stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.
The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.
As a political spouse, I've found that my stoicism often serves me well.
Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.
Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Stoicism is a philosophy designed for the masses, and if it has to be simplified a bit to reach the masses, so be it.
Stoicism is of no use to me whatsoever. What I'm a big believer in is talking about everything until you're blue in the face.
Stoicism - and philosophy - are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men and women of action.
The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness.
The essential idea of Stoicism in my interpretation is, you don't control the world around you, you control how you respond. At 19, that's very empowering.
I've made a professional reputation playing working-class, middle-class, American women. There's a real sense of stoicism and pragmatism and strength and lyricism of a woman like that.
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.
I think sometimes people expect people to burst into tears. But, I think sometimes emotion, as I've seen, shock, can have a lot of different manifestations. Sometimes it's tears and sometimes it's just complete stoicism.
My parents, Arthur and Olwen, were honest, working-class people who raised my brother Arthur, sister June, and me with the values of that era - patriotism, stoicism, honesty, concern for your neighbours, and judging a man by what he did rather than what he had.
