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Stoicism and How to think like a Roman Emperor with Anya Leonard and Donald Roberston
The Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
The Most Prosperous Journey That I Ever Made Was the One in Which I Lost My Fortune
The founder of the stoic school, zeno, was inspired to become a philosopher after having lost his fortune. Stoics taught that virtue is the only true good and for them, like socrates, virtue is an intellectual state. And because we can't always succeed in life what we're trying to do, then you you have to view external events with a certain amount of emotional detachment - not get too hung up on them.
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