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The Life Of Zeno The Prophet

The Daily Stoic

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Zeno the Profit

The story of stoicism begins fittingly in misfortune. The Phoenician merchant Zeno set sail on the Mediterranean with a cargo full of Tyrion purple dye. It was an irreplaceable fortune yet the unlucky merchant would later rejoice in his loss Claiming I made a prosperous voyage when I suffered shipwreck for it was a shipwreck that sent Zeno to Athens And on the path to creating what would become stoic philosophy.

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