Stoic Meditations

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704. Virtue is its own reward Sep 24, 2020

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If exercising virtue is pleasurable, aren't the Stoics a kind of Epicureans in disguise? Not at all, because the pleasure of virtue is a byproduct, not the main goal.

703. Harmonize your mind Sep 23, 2020

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A mind in harmony with itself is a virtuous one, because it is the vices that are at war with each other.

702. Pleasure is the companion, not the essence, of life Sep 22, 2020

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The ancients bade us lead the highest, not the most pleasant life, in order that pleasure might not be the guide but the companion of a right-thinking and honorable mind.

701. The difference between pleasure and virtue Sep 21, 2020

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If pleasure and virtue were entirely inseparable, we should not see some things to be pleasant, but not honorable, and others most honorable indeed, but hard and only to be attained by suffering.

700. Reason is the only thing that will make you truly happy Sep 18, 2020

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That person is happy, whose reason recommends to them the whole posture of their affairs.

699. There is no happiness without truth Sep 17, 2020

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For no one can be styled happy who is beyond the influence of truth.

698. Do away with hope and fear Sep 16, 2020

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A person may be called “happy” who, thanks to reason, has ceased either to hope or to fear: but rocks also feel neither fear nor sadness, yet no one would call those things happy which cannot comprehend what happiness is.

697. Fortune vs virtue Sep 15, 2020

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The highest good is a mind which despises the accidents of fortune, and takes pleasure in virtue.

696. Pursue the pleasures of life, in moderation Sep 14, 2020

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A happy life must also set due value upon all the things which adorn our lives, without over-estimating any one of them, and must be able to enjoy the bounty of Fortune without becoming her slave.

695. Don't follow blindly what other say, no matter how famous they are Sep 11, 2020

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When I say “our opinion,” I do not bind myself to any one of the chiefs of the Stoic school, for I too have a right to form my own opinion.

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