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With regard to practical matters they maintain that popular ideas of good and bad are wrong: many people who appear to be in dire circumstances are actually happy provided they deal with their situation bravely; others, regardless of how many possessions they have, are miserable, because they do not know how to use the gifts of fortune wisely.
Epictetus • Discourses and Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)
The geometrician teaches me how I may avoid losing any fraction of my estates, but what I really want to learn is how to lose the lot and still keep smiling.
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium (Classics S.)
Wisdom for the future?
Ellie Olson • 3 cards
Wisdom
Youri Cviklinski • 2 cards
Epictetus’s Stoicism will have quite a bit to say to you, because Stoicism is a philosophy of real life for real people living real lives. It’s a philosophy for people who make mistakes and harbor regrets. It’s also a philosophy for grown-ups. Stoicism asks you to quit mewling and making excuses and to face this problem you have, which is that your
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whoever longs for things that are not within his power, or seeks to avoid them, can neither be trustworthy nor free, but must necessarily be subject to change, and be tossed in all directions along with those things, and is inevitably placing himself under the domination of other people, namely, those who can secure or prevent such things; [20] and
... See moreEpictetus • Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford World's Classics)
On Wisdom
Dr. Chi-Hua Wang • 2 cards