“ The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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“ The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
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“ The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. - As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history. ”
- Czeslaw Milosz- Copy
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“ Everyone's being terribly British and sort of stoic: 'Yes, well OK, we'll walk over here and I'll take my trousers off here, and you'll lie down there and a bit of deep breathing and a breast will come out,'... It's quite a good way of dealing with the embarrassment of 'Here's where I get naked… ”
- Minnie Driver- Copy
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“ Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it. ”
- Christian Nestell Bovee- Copy
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“ Thousands of people up and down the country have been amazingly stoical in these circumstances. ”
- Tony Blair- Copy
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“ All the principles of sceptics, stoics, atheists, etc., are true. But their conclusions are false, because the opposite principles are also true. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ Is the quick and stoic stepper going to spawn a secondary event-a maternithon for expectant mothers? ”
- Bud Collins- Copy
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“ I... know what I do, and am unmoved by men's blame, or their praise either. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing, is perfection of character. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
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“ The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved — if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
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“ In lazy Apathy let Stoics boast, Their Virtue fix'd, 'tis fixed as in a frost. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind. ”
- Charles Horton Cooley- Copy
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“ Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist. ”
- Rabindranath Tagore- Copy
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