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The Choice of Hercules

Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life Podcast

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The Long and Difficult Road to Happiness

If you want to be physically fit and strong, you must train your body to obey your mind. If you seek to extend your influence through conquest,you must learn the arts of war from expats. To make going to sleep pleasant, you're forced to provide yourself with the softest beds and blankets that money can buy. For it's not work that makes you want to retire to your bed, but boredom. This is the sort of training you offer your so-called friends, exciting their passions by night and putting them to sleep for the best part of the day. Although you are an immortal, she continued, you've been turned out by all of the other gods and are sc

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