Sean
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“He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.”
― The Symposium
― The Symposium
“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what is in Fortune's control and abandoning what lies in yours.”
― On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
― On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
“78.—The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice.”
― Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
― Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
“324.—There is more self-love than love in jealousy.”
― Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
― Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
“The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.”
― Light on Life
― Light on Life
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This club is about traditional Stoicism with the distinct purpose of enabling and promoting discourse on Stoic philosophy as a way of life.
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