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Finding Calm – Chapter 3 from Nancy Sherman’s “Stoic Wisdom”

The Daily Stoic

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Aristotle's Promise of Happiness

Marcus writes telegraphing zeno's image of a cosmic city. Our preparedness to face the present and future depends on our own will, he says. The stoic promise is to stabilize happiness through stable and reliable good character. But just how to order them in a good life so that things outside your control don't derail your happiness was never fully resolved.

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