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His speeches were very simple. He made no campaign promises; a reporter was to write that Coke Stevenson never once in his entire career promised the people of Texas anything except to act as his conscience dictated. He had made a record in Austin, he said. The record was one of economy in government, of prudence and frugality, of spending the
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II
Stoicism, by enlarging human association, emancipates the individual.
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges • The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (Illustrated)
I think that a Stoic, if we could make him submit to a Socratic interrogation, would defend his view more or less as follows: The universe is a single animate Being, having a soul which may also be called God or Reason. As a whole, this Being is free. God decided, from the first, that He would act according to fixed general laws, but He chose such
... See moreBertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy

Theosophy PB Rudolf Steiner 1996 reprint Waldorf Occult | eBay
ebay.comesse divino, que não tem nada de um Deus pessoal, mas se confunde com a ordem do mundo, que os estoicos nos convidam a contemplar (theorein) com a ajuda de todos os meios apropriados
Luc Ferry • Aprender a viver: Filosofia para os novos tempos (Portuguese Edition)
Marcus, wrote the historian Edward Gibbon, was the last of the Five Good Emperors (the other four being Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus) who ruled from 96–180 and brought about “the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous.”
William B. Irvine • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
humanity’s most intractable disagreements.