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A Stoic Breviary: Classical Wisdom in Daily Practice

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The parable of a Brahman and his low-caste servant:As soon as Mâyâ is found out, she flies away. A priest was once going to the village of a disciple. He had no servant with him. On the way, seeing a cobbler, he addressed him, saying, "Hallo! good man, will you accompany me as a servant? You shall dine well and will be cared for; come along." The cobbler replied, ...


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Today has been unbroken; no one has filched the slightest part of it from me. The whole time has been divided between rest and reading.  A brief space has been given over to bodily exercise, and on this ground I can thank old age—my exercise costs very little effort; as soon as I stir, I am tired. And weariness is the aim and end of exercise, no...


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Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, The Continence of Scipio (c. 1653) 


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