Building Stoic Mindfulness (Episode 55)
Stoa Conversations: Stoicism Applied
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The Stoic's Capacity of Mindfulness
The stoics were committed to the view that the sage, the perfect person, the virtuous person would retain this kind of this virtue. Even if you get the sage totally drunk, even if they're on drugs, their mind is going to be so strong at these skills that they're not going to drop it in those cases. I have another line here from Epictetus: When you relax your attention for a while, do not fancy you will recover it whenever you please. But remember this, that because of your fault of today, your affairs must necessarily be in a worse condition in future occasions. That's from discourses for 12.
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