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Stoics are dumb as fuck. They’re right about you. You’re not objective.
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How modern he sounds! I didn't know "never ceases to amaze me" was an idiom back then.
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He's wrong, we don't seem to love ourselves at all.
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I can guarantee you that I do not need the philosophical advice of the world’s richest man who nevertheless unleashed Commodus on the world before his well deserved eternal damnation.

I will never need his advice, or the advice of the Great Enlightened Men in his wake.
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Read it a while ago and my take away was stoicism is good in moderation as are most things😉 I do enjoy the reminders and the meditations are excellent prompts.
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He was right about an awful lot of things but the number of narcissistic authoritarian men and their crypto-theocratic cabals are exceptions to this particular wisdom.
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I never paid attention to people like that.
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The issue is people treat their opinions like facts and force them on everyone else.
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