"Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these about whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?"
#philosophy #stoicism
"I would be a lot more excited about joining you in serious study if I were once to see you bright-eyed and enthusiastic."
Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings
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"Each individual brings about his own good and his own evil, his good fortune, his ill fortune, his happiness, and his wretchedness."
James B. Stockdale, Courage Under Fire
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Coach Sankhavaram ®
@paninid@mastodon.world
Come for the #shitposting, stay for the #sensemaking. Absurdly restless seeker 🇺🇸 Inadvertent chronicler 📚 Too unconventional for mainstream Indio Gringo™ ruthlessly calling out shouting out up GA-400 🔥 humanist ❤️🔥 #history, #language, #comedy, #sensemaking, #institutions, #information, #education, #psychology, #culture, #governance, & being #American🖖🏼 Revolution Will Be Joyfully Memeticized™ Big Red MBA ❤️ Autodidacto 🇲🇽 Big Orange Engineer 🧡
mastodon.world
So much going on in these two pages, it’s hard to summarize.
via @adapalmer@wandering.shop
#history #Neoplatonism #Christianity #Stoicism #Boethius #Manichaeism #Plotinus #Augustine #Renaissance #Catholic #ThomasAquinas
Seneca the Younger
@CuratedSeneca@mastodon.social
mastodon.social
"That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away."
#philosophy #stoicism
"If wisdom could erase all defects, it would have nature itself under its charge."
Seneca, Letters on Ethics: To Lucilius
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"Worse yet, we have the authority of grown men but the faults of children, of infants even."
Seneca, Letters on Ethics
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"A drink gives more enjoyment to one who is thirsty; food is more welcome to one who is hungry; and everything that comes after a period of privation is received with more delight."
Seneca, Letters on Ethics
#books #Stoicism #Gratitude #bookstodon
"A boxer who has never suffered a beating cannot bring bold spirits to the match."
Seneca, Letters on Ethics
#books #Stoicism #Resilience #bookstodon
"What is the use in reliving past sufferings, being miserable now because you were miserable then?"
Seneca, Letters on Ethics
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"So it is: since the moment of birth, you have been moving toward your execution."
Seneca, Letters on Ethics
#books #Stoicism #MementoMori #bookstodon
"You will never straighten what is crooked unless you have a ruler."
Seneca, Letters on Ethics
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Jan Wildeboer 😷
@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
My private account. Posts/Opinions are my own. Focused on #Open and TCP/ID, identity ownership in the real and digital world. 3D printer. Can solder and repair. Antifascist. European. Policy hacker. Rambles around at times. He/Him/His $argon2id$v=19$m=512,t=256,p=1$SWmoDffV/hOu+/Vii5Nxsw$zYZ5n+cXxZLKoLnXZJjll1JWcCFyiRVli7xOPqu63GM Blocks threads.net Works at Red Hat.
social.wildeboer.net
The ratio of things you want to change to things you can change is typically 99:1. But focusing on that 1% is worth every minute. Do not feel inferior because you have to leave 99% unsolved. Do your 1%. Trust the community. Other people will be inspired to work on their 1%. In sum we can reach 120%. Take your ego out of the equation. Do what you are good at. We will win. And celebrate your every little win. Locally. With your friends. Peace :)
#Stoicism #SharingIsCaring
"Not today good man, I'm feeling saucy."
Wayne's World (1992)
https://adversaria.locuscommunis.com/p/not-today-my-good-man
#Friendship #Community #Stoicism #NYC
Daily Stoic 🗿
@DailyStoic@mas.to
Stoicism: The art of keeping a straight face while life is falling apart around you. Daily quotes from in the stoic tradition, to remind you that self-control is king, and your emotions are the kingdom's peons. #stoic #stoicism #searchable
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