Stoic Meditations

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**Stoic Meditations**

Occasional reflections on the wisdom of Ancient Greek and Roman philosophers with Prof. Massimo Pigliucci. Complete index by author and source at https://massimopigliucci.org/stoic-podcast/. (cover art by Marek Škrabák; original music by Ian Jolin-Rasmussen).

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724. Look less critically at others, and a bit more critically at yourself Oct 22, 2020

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Do you look at other people’s pimples while yon yourselves are covered with countless ulcers?

723. Careful not to underestimate the power of Fortune Oct 21, 2020

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You are rendered over-proud by a fine house, as though it could never be burned, and your heads are turned by riches as though Fortune has not sufficient strength to swallow them up.

722. Ready for bad stuff to happen, but preferring the good stuff Oct 20, 2020

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I shall make whatever befalls me become a good thing, but I prefer that what befalls me should be comfortable and pleasant and unlikely to cause me annoyance.

721. Be at ease wherever you find yourself Oct 19, 2020

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A Stoic finds herself at ease both in a fancy house where food is served on silver plates and under the bridge sharing the fare with beggars.

720. Why wealth is not a good Oct 16, 2020

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Riches, I say, are not a good thing; for if they were, they would make people good: now since that which is found even among bad people cannot be termed good, I do not allow them to be called so.

719. People's social status doesn't matter Oct 15, 2020

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Nature bids me do good to mankind. Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a benefit.

718. On rational giving Oct 14, 2020

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He who believes giving to be an easy matter, is mistaken: it offers very great difficulties, if we bestow our bounty rationally, and do not scatter it impulsively and at random.

717. No one condemned wisdom to poverty Oct 13, 2020

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The philosopher may own wealth, but will not own wealth that has been torn from another, or which is stained with another’s blood: her must be obtained without wronging anyone, and without it being won by base means.

716. On the desirability of wealth Oct 12, 2020

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Do not, then, make any mistake: riches belong to the class of desirable things. But if my riches leave me, they will carry away with them nothing except themselves.

715. Tall or short, it doesn't matter Oct 09, 2020

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Health, for Aristotle, is a necessary requirement for a eudaimonic life. For the Stoics, it is preferred, other things being equal, but a life worth living is within grasp of everyone, regardless of their specific condition.

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