#stoicism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #stoicism, aggregated by home.social.
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"Do you desire another case? Take that of the younger Marcus Cato, with whom Fortune dealt in a more hostile and more persistent fashion. But he withstood her, on all occasions, and in his last moments, at the point of death, showed that a brave man can live in spite of Fortune, can die in spite of her. His whole life was passed either in civil warfare, or under a political regime which was soon to breed civil war."
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"He maintained this attitude up to the very end, and no man ever saw Socrates too much elated or too much depressed. Amid all the disturbance of Fortune, he was undisturbed."
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I often say that anonymity is a great gift, and that being rich is a million times better than being rich and famous (not that I'm either). So this post by one of Substack's many stoic accounts slapped.
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"This spirit thrusts itself forward, confident of commendation and esteem. It is superior to all, monarch of all it surveys; hence it should be subservient to nothing, finding no task too heavy, and nothing strong enough to weigh down the shoulders of a man."
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Relentlessly prune BS, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have.
— Paul Graham
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"“New friends, however, will not be the same.” No, nor will you yourself remain the same; you change with every day and every hour."
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"What profit is there in crossing the sea and in going from one city to another? If you would escape your troubles, you need not another place but another personality. Perhaps you have reached Athens, or perhaps Rhodes; choose any state you fancy, how does it matter what its character may be? You will be bringing to it your own."
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"Socrates is reported to have replied, when a certain person complained of having received no benefit from his travels: “It serves you right! You travelled in your own company!”"
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"The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live. And often this living nobly means that you cannot live long."
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"Therefore, my dear Lucilius, begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
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"But how foolish it is to set out one’s life, when one is not even owner of the morrow!"
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"Accept in an unruffled spirit that which is inevitable."
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"Whoever complains about the death of anyone, is complaining that he was a man. Everyone is bound by the same terms: he who is privileged to be born, is destined to die."
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Every hour focus your mind attentively…on the performance of the task in hand, with dignity, human sympathy, benevolence and freedom, and leave aside all other thoughts. You will achieve this, if you perform each action as if it were your last.
— Marcus Aurelius
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"“Of all these experiences that seem so frightful, none is insuperable. Separate trials have been over- come by many: fire by Mucius, crucifixion by Regulus, poison by Socrates, exile by Rutilius, and a sword-inflicted death by Cato; therefore, let us also overcome something.”"
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"Now a life of honour includes various kinds of conduct; it may include the chest in which Regulus was confined, or the wound of Cato which was torn open by Cato’s own hand, or the exile of Rutilius, or the cup of poison which removed Socrates from gaol to heaven."
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"I cannot help believing that Mucius was all the more lucky because he manipulated the flames as calmly as if he were holding out his hand to the manipulator. He had wiped out all his previous mistakes; he finished the war unarmed and maimed; and with that stump of a hand he conquered two kings."
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"There stood Mucius, despising the enemy and despising the fire, and watched his hand as it dripped blood over the fire on his enemy’s altar, until Porsenna, envying the fame of the hero whose punishment he was advocating, ordered the fire to be removed against the will of the victim."
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We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
— Aristotle
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"Allow me, excellent Lucilius, to utter a still bolder word: if any goods could be greater than others, I should prefer those which seem harsh to those which are mild and alluring, and should pronounce them greater. For it is more of an accomplishment to break one’s way through difficulties than to keep joy within bounds."
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This week's Things Friends Forward #Substack #newsletter is out!
034: They Are Us | 17 – 23 August
how group loyalty curdles into toxic culture in men's sport and elite boys' schools, why health #misinformation is now everyone's problem, and new #music from Erykah Badu
https://thingsfriendsforward.substack.com/p/034-they-are-us-17-23-august
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"Great also are the souls of the defenders—men who know that, as long as the path to death lies open, the blockade is not complete, men who breathe their last in the arms of liberty."
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"Let us greedily enjoy our friends, because we do not know how long this privilege will be ours."
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"I am endeavouring to live every day as if it were a complete life."
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"That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away."
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"The wise man is joyful, happy and calm, unshaken, he lives on a plane with the gods."
