An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.
Epictetus was a peasant child born about 50 A.D. who grew up to be a well-known Stoic philosopher, ... In modern buzz-word speak, he was the inventor of 'What people think of me is none of my business.' So I got really hooked on him.
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
To Nature I will pay my debt
With stoic laughter:
But spare me, God, your awful threat
Of Life Here-after!
Budge doctors of the Stoic fur.
From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.
But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
A stoic of the woods a man without a tear.
Police are a stoic breed. Often they take their lumps and don't make a big deal about it. They limp around for a couple of days. But no one's charged, and they don't miss any work.
I remember how devastated the family was standing around him and he was the one trying to make conversation so we'd feel better. He can be pretty stoic. He doesn't really show frustration or disappointment.
Every Stoic was a Stoic but in Christendom where is the Christian.
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.'
The term I kept hearing was that she was absolutely a diamond in the rough, and that intrigued me. She really has a sense of passion for life and basketball and a lot of times in our business, people become very stoic because perhaps you don't want to show too much emotion.
Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by sceptics.
Avoid the reeking herd, Shun the polluted flock, Live like that stoic bird The eagle of the rock.
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