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Stoicism was a school of philosophy founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early third century BC. Its name is derived from the Greek stoa, meaning porch, because that’s where Zeno first taught his students. The philosophy asserts that
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“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
― Hamlet
― Hamlet
“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
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“My aim here was much more straightforward and objective — just to see whether I could match income to expenses, as the truly poor attempt to do every day. Besides, I've had enough unchosen encounters with poverty in my lifetime to know it's not a place you would want to visit for touristic purposes; it just smells too much like fear.”
― Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
― Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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