“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.”
Rodney Crowell
“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer”
D.H. Lawrence
“I came out and everybody was crying and upset. You talk about going from celebratory to just stoic all at once.”
Beth Daniel
“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
““to explore is to find. to theorise is to know. to learn is to live.””
Morri Moment
“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
“Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.”
Samuel Johnson
