With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.
What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?
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.
stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
He who despises life is his life's master.
The network told me to get rid of Number One, the woman first lieutenant, and also get rid of 'that Martian fellow'. . . meaning, of course, Spock. I knew I couldn't keep both, so I gave the stoicism of the female officer to Spock, and married the actress who played Number One. Thank God it wasn't the other way around. I mean Leonard's cute, but. . .
It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.
Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.
Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.
The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.
Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels every one of our acts and attainments and every moment of our life histories, this knowledge is to storytelling what rust is to oxidation; the writer of horror holds with those who favor fire. The horror writer is not content to report on death as the universal system of human weather; he or she chases tornadoes. Horror is Stoicism with a taste for spectacle.
Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.
Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.
