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266 - Finding Balance: The Paradox of Pain and Pleasure

Stoic Coffee Break

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Stoic Coffee Break: How to Choose the Hard Path of Growth and Moderation

When we act with virtue, then pleasure and happiness follow as a natural consequence. Seneca even says that which is injured by its own extent cannot be a good thing. As the world moves faster and pleasure is easier to access, people are lonelier than ever before. We can instead learn to govern ourselves to choose the harder path of growth and moderation.

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