Stoic Meditations

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534. When it comes to people insulting you, you are in complete control Jan 27, 2020

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It is a sort of revenge to spoil a man’s enjoyment of the insult he has offered to us … the success of an insult lies in the sensitiveness and rage of the victim.

533. The insult conundrum Jan 24, 2020

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Do these things befall me deservedly or undeservedly? If deservedly, it is not an insult, but a judicial sentence; if undeservedly, then he who does injustice ought to blush, not I.

532. The best way to respond to insults Jan 23, 2020

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When insulted, Cato did not flare up and revenge the outrage, he did not even pardon it, but ignored it, showing more magnanimity in not acknowledging it than if he had forgiven it.

531. Rich people are worse than beggars Jan 22, 2020

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The wise man will not admire himself even if many rich men admire him; for he knows that they differ in no respect from beggars — nay, are even more wretched than they; for beggars want but a little, whereas rich men want a great deal.

530. On the invulnerability of the wise person Jan 21, 2020

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Wise persons are without anger, which is caused by the appearance of injury. And they could not be free from anger unless they were also free from injury, which they know cannot be done to them.

529. Is sagehood possible? Jan 20, 2020

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Seneca argues that Cato the Younger was a sage, but a modern biography casts some doubt on that. Do sages ever walk the earth? Who would you put forth as your favorite candidate?

528. How to react to both prosperity and adversity Jan 17, 2020

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Bear adversity with calm and prosperity with moderation, neither yielding to the former nor trusting to the latter.

527. The simplified dichotomy of control Jan 16, 2020

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Fortune can take nothing away save what she gave. Now fortune does not give virtue; therefore she does not take it away.

526. The meaning of invulnerability Jan 15, 2020

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Invulnerable is not that which is never struck, but that which is never wounded. In this class I will show you the wise person.

525. We are free no matter what Jan 14, 2020

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"For Cato did not outlive freedom, nor did freedom outlive Cato." On the Stoic conception of suicide.

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