5 Classic Stoic Principles to Live By for a Happier Life

The Stoics can teach you how to find a sense of purpose in life, how to face adversity, how to conquer anger within yourself, moderate your desires, experience healthy sources of joy, endure pain and illness patiently and with dignity, exhibit courage in the face of your anxieties, cope with loss, and perhaps even confront your own mortality while

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that its people knew neither how to give nor receive a benefit, and that of all the vices to which Rome’s citizens fell prey, none were as significant as ingratitude. He said that amongst “homicides, tyrants, thieves, adulterers, ravishers, sacrilegious, traitors,” there was nothing “worse than the ungrateful man.” He explained that many of those c

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Five things to learn about achieving happiness from the Greek stoic Epictetus.