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If we have been pleased with life ,we should not be displeased with death since it comes from the hand of the same master.
- Michelangelo
The peace of God is not the peace of stoicism or passivity. It is the most intense activity.
- Oswald Chambers
pain may be inevitable but suffering is optional.
- William Ury
I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.
- Marcus Aurelius
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.
- DH Lawrence
A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.
- Marcus Aurelius
Our (The Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaint.
- William Osler
Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.
- Marcus Aurelius
If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.
- Epictetus
Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more.
- Marcus Aurelius
If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.
- Epictetus