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“However, the majority of people mistakenly judge external things to be ‘good’ and therefore experience feelings of desire for things beyond their control, leading to frustration and suffering.”
― Stoicism and the Art of Happiness: Ancient Tips for Modern Challenges
― Stoicism and the Art of Happiness: Ancient Tips for Modern Challenges
“Men are disturbed not by events but by their opinions about them.”
― Stoicism and the Art of Happiness: Ancient Tips for Modern Challenges
― Stoicism and the Art of Happiness: Ancient Tips for Modern Challenges
“Who, then, is the invincible human being? One who can be disconcerted by nothing that lies outside the sphere of choice.”
― Discourses, Fragments, Handbook
― Discourses, Fragments, Handbook
“Remember two things: i. that everything has always been the same, and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, or in an infinite period; ii. that the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have you cannot lose.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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