stoicism

34 posts

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