#stoic — Public Fediverse posts
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It is a characteristic of wisdom to not do desperate things.
— Henry David Thoreau
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It is a characteristic of wisdom to not do desperate things.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
— Seneca
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
— Seneca
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and they help you become what they are capable of being.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and they help you become what they are capable of being.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The generous will prosper;
those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.— Proverbs 11:25
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The generous will prosper;
those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.— Proverbs 11:25
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Be in a state of gratitude for everything that shows up in your life. Be thankful for the storms as well as the smooth sailing. What is the lesson or gift in what you are experiencing right now? Find your joy not in what's missing in your life but in how you can serve.
— Wayne Dyer
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Be in a state of gratitude for everything that shows up in your life. Be thankful for the storms as well as the smooth sailing. What is the lesson or gift in what you are experiencing right now? Find your joy not in what's missing in your life but in how you can serve.
— Wayne Dyer
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Take a deep breath. Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is important this very second.
— Greg McKeown
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Take a deep breath. Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is important this very second.
— Greg McKeown
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"The newly read text discusses the stoic concept of hormē, or impulse, and warns that failing to regulate behaviour with reason can lead to harmful passions and diversion from one’s goals. Another concept is phronēsis or “practical wisdom”, the highest virtue a person can have in stoic philosophy.
In one passage, the author writes: “We will inquire into something, but we will not grasp it, if in some way we depart from ourselves and from our own nature.” The line suggests that reason and the innate human inclination to do good were crucial for furthering one’s knowledge."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/24/ai-read-papyrus-scroll-burnt-vesuvius-eruption
#Science #AI #MachineLearning #XRay #Scroll #Papyrus #History #Stoic #Knowledge
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"The newly read text discusses the stoic concept of hormē, or impulse, and warns that failing to regulate behaviour with reason can lead to harmful passions and diversion from one’s goals. Another concept is phronēsis or “practical wisdom”, the highest virtue a person can have in stoic philosophy.
In one passage, the author writes: “We will inquire into something, but we will not grasp it, if in some way we depart from ourselves and from our own nature.” The line suggests that reason and the innate human inclination to do good were crucial for furthering one’s knowledge."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/24/ai-read-papyrus-scroll-burnt-vesuvius-eruption
#Science #AI #MachineLearning #XRay #Scroll #Papyrus #History #Stoic #Knowledge
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If you make happiness your goal, you’ll be disappointed. If you make presence your goal, you’ll be satisfied.
— Maxime Lagacé
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If you make happiness your goal, you’ll be disappointed. If you make presence your goal, you’ll be satisfied.
— Maxime Lagacé
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One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed
— Aristotle
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One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed
— Aristotle
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To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
— Albert Einstein
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To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
— Albert Einstein
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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When a dog is tied to a cart, if it wants to follow, it is pulled and follows, making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity. But if the dog does not follow, it will be compelled in any case. So it is with men too: even if they don’t want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined.
— Zeno of Citum
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When a dog is tied to a cart, if it wants to follow, it is pulled and follows, making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity. But if the dog does not follow, it will be compelled in any case. So it is with men too: even if they don’t want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined.
— Zeno of Citum
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The good and the bad occur at all times and will keep happening. We can become lost if we go with the hype of ‘good and bad’ every time.
— Tiisetso Maloma
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The good and the bad occur at all times and will keep happening. We can become lost if we go with the hype of ‘good and bad’ every time.
— Tiisetso Maloma
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Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.
— Rumi
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There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
— John Lennon
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
— Carl Jung
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.
— Randy Pausch
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
— Albert Camus
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Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.
— Dale Carnegie
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If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
— Gautama Buddha
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People walk in wickedness all their lives or, at any rate, for the greater part of it. If they ever attain to virtue, it is late and at the very sunset of their days.
— Cleanthes
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You can easily judge a character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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This Stoic shit. It's really good. I especially like the sentence "Guilt is a useless emotion." I still feel guilty about things I said and did when I was 7 years old.
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To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
— Emily Dickinson
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
— Epictetus
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was.
— Dag Hammarskjold
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Life is a song–sing it. Life is a game–play it. Life is a challenge–meet it. Life is a dream–realize it. Life is a sacrifice–offer it. Life is love–enjoy it.
— Sarojini Naidu