The Four Virtues of Stoicism

Fortune behaves as she pleases and the world is largely indifferent to our wants and needs. Understanding this may exacerbate worries as so much is outside of our control, leading to anxiety. Stoic one-liners to beat anxiety include: (1) It's not things that upset us, but our opinion about them. (2) We suffer more in imagination than in reality, torturing ourselves about what could happen. (3) We can escape anxiety by realizing that it is within us, and things don't make us anxious. We have control over it and can solve for it.

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