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Stoicism offers a path of least resistance to dealing with life’s challenges and a practical guide to living in harmony with the capricious forces of nature through the development of mental fortitude.
“Uno non può possedere capacità più grande o più piccola della padronanza di se stesso."
(One can have no greater or lesser mastery than of oneself.)”
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(One can have no greater or lesser mastery than of oneself.)”
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“The time is now proper for us to reform backward; more by dissenting than by agreeing; by differing more than by consent.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.”
― States of Matter
― States of Matter
“Soon earth will cover us all. Then in time earth, too, will change; later, what issues from this change will itself in turn incessantly change, and so again will all that then takes its place, even unto the world's end. to let the mind dwell on these swiftly rolling billows of change and transformation is to know a contempt for all things mortal.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Mathematics, such as appertain to painting, are necessary to the painter, also the absence of companions who are alien to his studies: his brain must be versatile and susceptible to the variety of objects which it encounters, and free from distracting cares.”
― Thoughts on Art and Life
― Thoughts on Art and Life
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