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This theme is not specific to Stoic
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agricultural rhythms of the Mediter
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those who love the book cannot deny
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half-conscious awareness that the a
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The fall of Constantinople to the T
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witness to the effect of the Medita
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(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University P
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are the works of Seneca the Younger
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Virginia, and in particular my depa
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occasionally split up a single entr
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Book 1DEBTS AND LESSONS
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4. MY GREAT-GRANDFATHERTo avoid the
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be the same in all circumstances—
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12. ALEXANDER THE PLATONISTNot to b
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The sense he gave of staying on the
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No one ever called him glib, or sha
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people find it hard to abstain from
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That I never laid a finger on Bened
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Book 2ON THE RIVER GRAN, AMONG THE
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and gulped in again every instant.
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The nature of the world.My nature.H
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imaginary ideas of it by logical an
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do it harm, as the souls of the ang
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Book 3IN CARNUNTUM
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products of the baking, and yet ple
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are you thinking about?” you can
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anything better than justice, hones
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Neither servility nor arrogance. Ne
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No one can prevent that.13. Doctors
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Book 4
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harmony.So keep getting away from i
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“The world is nothing but change.
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12. Two kinds of readiness are cons
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and sufficient to themselves. Prais
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necessary?”But we need to elimina
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farming, flattering, boasting, dist
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38. Look into their minds, at what
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47. Suppose that a god announced th
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50. A trite but effective tactic ag
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1. At dawn, when you have trouble g
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4. I walk through what is natural,
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7. Prayer of the Athenians:Zeus, ra
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behaving like a human—however imp
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you understood “goods” as meani
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—Lives are led at court. . . .The
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community isn’t injured by it, ne
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forfeit nothing. If the smoke makes
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Book 6
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4. Before long, all existing things
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Pride is a master of deception: whe
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Then what is to be prized?An audien
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21. If anyone can refute me—show
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happens. Make sure you remain strai
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their trade? Should we as humans fe
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consciously, with understanding; so
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died—all professions, all nationa
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accomplished.51. Ambition means tyi
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servitude of ants, scampering of fr
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unit.This will be clearer to you if
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For “Epictetus” read any person
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Analyze what exists, break it all d
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42. “For what is just and good is
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51a. “To labor cheerfully and so
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And now where are they? Nowhere.Is
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whether he debated with the sophist
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73. You’ve given aid and they’v
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1. Another encouragement to humilit
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The second step: Concentrate on wha
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Physics. Ethics. Logic.14. When you
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And the whole earth a mere point in
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evil can touch them.29. To erase fa
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35. We have various abilities, pres
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senses deal with it. Are there obst
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embracing the obstacles too.48. Rem
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How? By working to win your freedom
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58. Fear of death is fear of what w
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1. Injustice is a kind of blasphemy
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enough. Or are you determined to li
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9. All things are drawn toward what
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Stillness.As the logos of the state
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Your neighbor’s—to distinguish
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with even the smallest progress, an
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praise help them.35. To decompose i
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—But those are things the gods le
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And how does it injure you anyway?
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1. To my soul:Are you ever going to
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blame lies with you. Or no one.5. W
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birth to.—But if you’re inextri
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• at accomplishing practical ends
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Forgotten their behavior, their fea
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Those are the only options. Reason
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do so voluntarily.29. Stop whatever
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from doing what’s proper to human
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35. A healthy pair of eyes should s
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Book 11
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years behind him and eyes in his he
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Or:And why should we feel anger at
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Because anger, too, is weakness, as
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in your voice, visible in your eyes
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suggestion that they aren’t good
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It’s courtesy and kindness that d
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Unhelpful, unless you specify a goa
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Constant transitions.Not the “not
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1. Everything you’re trying to re
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If you can cut free of impressions
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Who is responsible for our own rest
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What else could they do—with that
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as a whole, whose parts, shifting a
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That whatever happens has always ha
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goodness like the rings of a chain,
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36. You’ve lived as a citizen in
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Stoic exemplars see the Introductio
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prosecuted and condemned him.3.6 as
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exact English equivalent (“perver
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12.3 “a sphere rejoicing . . .”
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RCHIMEDES: Mathematician, scientist
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thanks in large part to his quotabi
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mind is uncertain. (4.33)ANTHIPPE:
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