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How Stoicism Can Change Your Life
As Shakespeare’s Hamlet says, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
There's a reason it's called "timeless wisdom."
It's a common misconception that to be a Stoic is to be in possession of a stiff upper lip.
Commodus lived the anti-Stoic life, pursuing lust, narcissism, and self-indulgence.
Stoicism says that we should change what we can, endure what we must. The company we keep is something we can, and often should, change.
Modern applications of Stoicism show up in unexpected places, from the latest techniques in psychotherapy to texts on Christian theology.
Great ideas in philosophy often come in dense packages. Then there is where the work of Marcus Aurelius.
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