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stoicism (47)in #life • 8 years ago
Never Be a Slave of Your Wealth
“For the wise man does not consider himself unworthy of any gifts from Fortune’s hands: he does not love wealth but he would rather have it; he does not admit into his heart but…
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stoicism (47)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
Revenge is an admission that we have been hurt
"How far more glorious is it to throw back all wrongs and insults from oneself, like one wearing armour of proof against all weapons, for revenge is an admission that we have…
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stoicism (47)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
You say "I cannot endure it: injuries are hard to bear." You lie.
< "What then?" say you, “shall he not be punished?" He will be, even supposing that you do not wish it: for the greatest punishment for having done harm is the sense of…
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stoicism (47)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body
"It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much…
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stoicism (47)in #wisdom • 8 years ago
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
"He says: "Contented poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it be contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more…
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stoicism (47)in #wisdom • 8 years ago
Our lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty. The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.
"But how much more highly do I think of these men! They can do these things, but decline to do them. To whom that ever tried have these tasks proved false? To what man did they…
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stoicism (47)in #wisdom • 8 years ago
the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial
"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of…
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stoicism (47)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
These reasonings do not cohere: I am richer than you, therefore I am better than you
"These reasonings do not cohere: I am richer than you, therefore I am better than you; I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better than you. On the contrary these rather…
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stoicism (47)in #wisdom • 8 years ago
Evil herself drinks the largest portion of her own poison.
"Let us therefore avoid being ungrateful, not for the sake of others but for our own sakes. When we do wrong, only the least and lightest portion of it flows back upon our…
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