Stoic Life Lessons Men Learn Too Late In Life
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00:00 Inwardly, everything should be different, but our outward face should conform with the crowd.
00:08 Anyone who can make you angry becomes your master.
00:16 The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
00:23 The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
00:29 When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy,
00:41 to love. You have power over your mind,
00:49 not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength.
00:56 He suffers more than necessary. Who suffers before, it is necessary.
01:06 Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break,
01:13 but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
01:22 Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
01:31 People are frugal in guarding their personal property, but as soon as it comes to squandering
01:41 time, they are most wasteful of one thing, in which it is right to be stingy.
01:51 Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life.
01:57 If you really want to escape the things that harass you,
02:04 what you're needing is not to be in a different place, but to be a different person.
02:11 Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are.
02:22 We've been using them not because we needed them, but because we had them.
02:27 If a man knows not which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
02:37 We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
02:48 Here is a rule to remember in future. When anything tempts you to feel bitter,
02:58 not, this is misfortune, but to bear this worthily is good fortune.
03:07 Man conquers the world by conquering himself.
03:15 Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
03:20 The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
03:28 If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it.
03:42 It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
03:50 Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
04:07 Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
04:12 It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more that is poor.
04:21 Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
04:32 Difficulty shows what men are. To be everywhere is to be nowhere.
04:40 Death smiles at us all. All we can do is smile back.
04:50 The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
05:01 Nothing endures but change.
05:06 A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
05:14 If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
05:27 Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
05:35 No man was ever wise by chance.
05:41 He who is brave is free.
05:51 Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
05:57 The willing are led by fate, the reluctant dragged.
06:05 What we do now echoes in eternity.
06:11 While we wait for life, life passes.
06:18 The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.
06:28 It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous
06:36 than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.
06:45 Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.
06:52 Be silent for the most part or, if you speak, say only what is necessary in a few words.
07:03 All cruelty springs from weakness.
07:13 It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
07:17 Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
07:26 Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
07:34 Don't explain your philosophy, embody it.
07:41 Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
07:47 Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires but by the removal of desire.
07:59 Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
08:07 It is not death that a man should fear but he should fear never beginning to live.
08:14 The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
08:27 Humans have come into being as a result of their own desire.
08:35 Humans have come into being for the sake of each other.
08:39 So either teach them or learn to bear them.
08:44 It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character.
08:51 Otherwise it cannot harm you inside or out.
08:57 The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
09:05 Mastery of reading and writing requires a master, still more so life.
09:13 Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present and fear the future.
09:24 Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
09:33 Your days are numbered, use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun.
09:41 If you do not, the sun will soon set and you with it.
09:48 The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
10:01 Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
10:07 It's not that we have little time but more that we waste a good deal of it.
10:16 Whatever happens at all happens as it should.
10:23 You will find this true if you watch narrowly.
10:27 Our life is what our thoughts make it.
10:34 How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
10:43 He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive.
10:55 We live only now, everything else is either past or is unknown.
11:01 Progress is not achieved by luck or accident but by working on yourself daily.
11:11 In banquets remember that you entertain two guests, body and soul, and whatever you shall
11:23 have given to the body you soon eject, but what you shall have given to the soul you keep always.
11:32 No person has the power to have everything they want,
11:39 but it is in their power not to want what they don't have
11:44 and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.
11:53 If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world,
11:59 you will yet be miserable.
12:02 He is the most powerful who has power over himself.
12:10 Difficulty strengthen the mind as labor does the body.
12:21 As is a tale, so is life. Not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
12:28 Life, if well lived, is long enough.
12:35 The best answer to anger is silence, a greed, but nature set a limit on that,
12:45 as it did on eating and drinking.
12:48 Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
12:56 He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee.
13:05 If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
13:16 The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
13:23 To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
13:30 Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
13:42 No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
13:47 If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time.
13:53 Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
13:59 We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
14:10 No man can escape his destiny, the next inquiry being
14:15 how he may best live the time that he has to live.
14:19 The whole future lies in uncertainty. Live immediately.
14:27 Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
14:38 But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past,
14:42 neglect the present, and fear the future.
14:46 We suffer not from the events in our lives, but from our judgment about them.
14:55 It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control.
15:06 Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
15:13 If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself. If it is a lie, laugh at it.
15:25 Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do.
15:36 Hold to your true aspirations, no matter what is going on around you.
15:40 Confine yourself to the present.
15:46 No man is free who is not a master of himself.
15:53 Very little is needed to make a happy life.
15:59 It is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
16:04 If you live in harmony with nature, you will never be poor.
16:09 If you live according to what others think, you will never be rich.
16:14 Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.
16:21 The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach.
16:31 A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
16:39 Man is not worried by real problems, so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
16:50 Small-minded people blame others.
16:57 Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
17:03 Respect the past, be open to the future.
17:10 The life we receive is not short, but we make it so.
17:16 We are not ill-provided, but use what we have wastefully.
17:25 Stay calm and serene, regardless of what life throws at you.
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