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"I am content with few, content with one, content with none at all."
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: All Three Volumes
La position d’Épicure relève d’une philosophie immanente : il n’y a pas, selon lui, de transcendance quelconque qui se trouverait au-dessus des hommes et serait représentée par des dieux, des mythologies ou autres. Ce n’est pas pour cela qu’ils n’existent pas, mais ils n’ont pas d’actions envers les hommes qui agissent, vivent, évoluent dans un
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“Keep death and exile before your eyes each day, along with everything that seems terrible—by doing so, you’ll never have a base thought nor will you have excessive desire.” —EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 21
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
Epicurus also encourages us to avoid unhealthy attachment in our relationships. He says: ‘Those who possess the power of securing themselves completely from their neighbours, live most happily with one another, since they have this constant assurance’.
Derren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
qu’Épicure montre qu’il faut avoir une vie particulièrement austère, une vie où le plaisir n’est pas dans la chair, mais dans l’ataraxie. Le bonheur, la vie heureuse chez Épicure se caractérise par cette ataraxie qui signifie absence de troubles 2. Car pour lui le malheur des hommes provient du fait qu’ils craignent des choses qui ne sont pourtant
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we own nothing, and nothing is owed to us. We’re guests who temporarily walk this planet.
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well

Stoicism – founded by Zeno of Citium and named after the Stoa, the covered walkway in the Athenian marketplace where this new philosophy was expounded – also saw happiness in terms of tranquillity and, like Epicureanism, its approach centred on ensuring the absence of pain. Stoics taught, along with the Epicureans, that we should limit our desires,
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