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“While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning a tune on the flute. ‘What good will it do you,’ they asked, ‘to know this tune before you die?’” — from “Why Read the Classics?,” in The Uses of Literature (trans. Patrick Creagh)

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The writings of Plato and Aristotle are haunted by a figure who seeks wisdom of the highest things and who thereby gains practical wisdom, knowledge of how to govern. The first philosopher, Thales, fell into a well while looking at the stars, possessed by knowledge Aristotle called “wondrous, difficult and divine—but useless.” Yet Socrates fought... See more

Zena Hitz • The Lamp Magazine | The Practical Wisdom of Eva Brann

In a time like this, neither more intelligence nor more willpower is enough. What’s needed is what philosophy has always claimed to love: Wisdom—the meta-value that helps you find your way, and the way.— Peter Limberg

Jean-Jacques Rousseau on wisdom:

“Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. Among the most necessary knowledge is the knowledge of how to live well, that is, how to produce the least possible evil and the greatest... See more

Brain Food: Different Resolutions

“But the wise person can lose nothing. Such a person has everything stored up for themselves, leaving nothing to Fortune, their own goods are held firm, bound in virtue, which requires nothing from chance, and therefore can’t be either increased or diminished.” —SENECA, ON THE FIRMNESS OF THE WISE, 5.4

Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius

The four cardinal virtues—prudence (wisdom), justice, temperance (self-control), and fortitude (courage)—were considered the essential qualities of any great man

The Death of the Gentleman

Cicero's "Paradoxa Stoicorum" (Stoic Paradoxes)

Only the morally good is truly good - Virtue is the only genuine good, while things like wealth, health, and pleasure are morally indifferent.
Virtue is sufficient for happiness - A person who possesses virtue has everything necessary for a happy life, regardless of external circumstances.
All sins are