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He decided to live like a dog, and was therefore called a “cynic,” which means “canine.” He rejected all conventions—whether of religion, of manners, of dress, of housing, of food, or of decency.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Pour Épicure, l’ataraxie est le seul vrai bonheur. Et comment l’atteint-on ? Pas par l’harmonie de l’âme de Platon, ni par la conquête de la raison d’Aristote, mais simplement par l’élimination des soucis et de l’inquiétude. Si Épicure s’adressait à vous en ce moment il vous inciterait à vous simplifier la vie.
Irvin Yalom • Le Problème Spinoza (Littérature) (French Edition)
He was the perfect Orphic saint: in the dualism of heavenly soul and earthly body, he had achieved the complete mastery of the soul over the body. His indifference to death at the last is the final proof of this mastery. At the same time, he is not an orthodox Orphic; it is only the fundamental doctrines that he accepts, not the superstitions and
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Stoicism was a school of philosophy founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early third century BC. Its name is derived from the Greek stoa, meaning porch,
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
Et, à propos de la méthode qui définit les choses en les réduisant à leurs parties (XI,2,2), Marc Aurèle conseille : « Sauf pour la vertu et ce qui se rapporte à la vertu, souviens-toi bien d'aller jusqu'aux parties ainsi divisées et de parvenir, par cette division, à les mépriser. Cette méthode-là, transpose-la à toute la vie. »
Pierre Hadot • La Citadelle intérieure : Introduction aux Pensées de Marc Aurèle (Essais) (French Edition)
- accepts nothing false or uncertain; 2) directs its impulses only to acts for the common good; 3) limits its desires and aversions only to what’s in its own power; 4) embraces everything nature assigns it.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.7
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
Les mets recherchés ne sont que du cadavre; la pourpre, du poil de brebis; l'union des sexes, un frottement de ventre (VI,13,1 ) ; la guerre que fait Marc Aurèle, une chasse analogue à celle de la mouche par l'araignée (X,10,1) ; la vie sociale et politique, peu de chose
Pierre Hadot • La Citadelle intérieure : Introduction aux Pensées de Marc Aurèle (Essais) (French Edition)
‘our end lies in following the gods, and the essence of the good in the correct use of impressions’?
Epictetus • Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford World's Classics)
that you would rather please yourself than please the people; that you take thought for the quality, not the number of judgments made about you; that you live without fear of gods or humans; that you either defeat your troubles or put an end to them.