stoicism
34 posts
- I feel at ease with whatever will come
- Step 1: Read this book. Step 2: Live a cool life
- Meditations
- The Antidote (review)
- What’s done is done
- Enthusiasms: Epictetus Discovers the Internet
- Things without all remedy Should be without regard: what’s done is done
- Art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act and valour?
- Meditations (review)
- Embrace all change, not just change that benefits you
- They cannot admire you for intellect
- It is ridiculous not to escape from one’s own vices, which is possible, while…
- All things are short-lived–this is their common lot–but you pursue likes…
- The body, too, should stay firmly composed, and not fling itself about either…
- No more roundabout discussion of what makes a good man
- Always make a definition or sketch of what presents itself to your mind, so…
- For if he shall begin to fall into dotage, perspiration and nutrition…
- The Discourses by Epictetus, Book One - The Internet Classics Archive
- We must be indulgent to the mind, and from time to time must grant it…
- On Tranquillity of Mind - Seneca
- Passion Buys What It Craves with Its Life
- We cannot bear toil or pleasure or ourselves or anything very long
- It is weariness upon the same things to labor and by them to be controlled
- Thus ever from himself doth each man flee
- Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know
- Whatever moral rules you have deliberately proposed to yourself, abide by them…
- The Enchiridion by Epictetus - The Internet Classics Archive
- Envy works upon what is close at hand, and things that are far off we are more…
- Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check…
- He who bestows all of his time on his own needs, who plans out every day as if…
- Heaven knows!
- Look back in memory and consider when you ever had a fixed plan, how few days…
- You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you…
- Bear Misfortune Nobly as Good Fortune