maybe nothing has changed since the days of Hesiod
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To the fool, however, and to him who trusts in fortune, each event as it arrives ‘comes in a new and sudden form,’ and a large part of evil, to the inexperienced, consists in its novelty. This is proved by the fact that men endure with greater courage, when they have once become accustomed to them, the things which they had at first regarded as har
... See moreGregory Lopez • Live Like A Stoic: 52 Exercises for Cultivating a Good Life
Do you seek any greater reward for a good person than that of accomplishing what is virtuous and right?
Epictetus • Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford World's Classics)
“An endeavor achieved without delay, wrong turnings, occasional blank walls and a vein of self-doubt running through all, leading eventually to some degree of heart-break is a thing of the moment, a mere bagatelle, and often neither use nor ornament. It will be scanned for a moment and put aside. What is worthwhile carries the struggle of the maker
... See moreNatural desires are limited; those which spring from false opinions have nowhere to stop, for falsity has no point of termination. When a person is following a track, there is an eventual end to it somewhere, but with wandering at large there is no limit. So give up pointless, empty journeys, and whenever you want to know whether the desire aroused
... See moreSeneca • Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium (Classics S.)
It is difficulties that reveal what men amount to; and so, whenever you’re struck by a difficulty, remember that God, like a trainer in the gymnasium, has matched you against a tough young opponent. [2] ‘For what purpose?’, someone asks. So that you may become an Olympic victor; and that is something that can’t be achieved without sweat.
Epictetus • Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford World's Classics)
For what else is tragedy than the portrayal in tragic verse of the sufferings of men who have attached high value to external things?
Epictetus • Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford World's Classics)
But first we have to reject the life of pleasures; they make us soft and womanish; they are insistent in their demands, and what is more, require us to make insistent demands on fortune. And then we need to look down on wealth, which is the wage of slavery.
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium (Classics S.)
