The Beginner's Guide to Stoicism: Tools for Emotional Resilience and Positivity

if they really grasp Stoicism, they might choose to let the dessert pass even though it arrives. That Stoic, Epictetus claims, is worthy of ruling with the gods!

It doesn’t have to be this way. If you accept that things are only yours for a time, then you can be happy you had them while you did and not fall apart when they’re gone.

“No school has more goodness and gentleness;

“You are just an appearance and not the thing you claim to be”

Epictetus says that a Stoic won’t desire that dessert before they have it and therefore won’t be disturbed if they never get it.

This promotion is nothing to me.”

“Look down from above on the countless herds of men and their countless solemnities, and the infinitely varied voyagings in storms and calms, and the differences among those who are born, who live together, and die. And consider, too, the life lived by others in olden time, and the life of those who will live after thee, and the life now lived amon

“Waste no more time thinking about what a good person should be, just be one.”

It seemed so to them