#stoicism

If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich.

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Everything has two handles, the one by which it may be carried, the other by which it cannot. If your brother acts unjustly,...

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Let it happen, if it wants, to whatever it can happen to. And what’s affected can complain about it if it wants. It doesn’t

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So you want to live ‘according to nature?’ Oh, you noble Stoics, what a fraud is in this phrase! Imagine something like nature,...

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Others obey their own lead, follow their own impulses. Don’t be distracted. Keep walking. Follow your own nature, and

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You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you. Things can’t shape our decisions by themselves.

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It’s the pursuit of these things, and your attempts to avoid them, that leave you in such turmoil. And yet they aren’t

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Examine yourself, whether you would rather be rich or happy; if rich, be assured that this is neither a good, nor altogether

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