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Someone sent me this video on Daoism and Stoicism to look at. As my comments grew, I thought it might as well be an opportunity to turn it into a brief post. Unfortunately, this is a very poorly-researched and therefore very misleading interpretation of Stoicism, as we’ll see. These are my rough notes in response to the video. Of course, it would be possible to attempt a muc...
Forget all else, Lucilius, and concentrate your thoughts on this one thing: not to fear the name of death. Through long reflection make death one of your close acquaintances, so that, if the situation arises, you are able even to go out and meet it. — Seneca, On Earthquakes
One day you will die. In many ways, though, death is already present with us through...
Each man’s body is a measure for his property, just as the foot is a measure for his shoe. If, then, you abide by this principle, you will maintain the proper measure, but if you go beyond it, you cannot help but fall headlong over a precipice, as it were, in the end. So also in the case of your shoe; if once you go beyond the foot, you get first a gilded shoe, then a purpl...