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𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆: 𝑹𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑷𝒍𝒐𝒘, 𝑺𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒏 𝑻𝒓𝒆𝒆: 𝑺𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒂 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒁𝒉𝒖𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒛𝒊

Can Stoicism answer our dilemma?

Compare Seneca’s On the Shortness of Life with the Zhuangzi in this reflection on Stoicism vs. Daoism. Learn how Cincinnatus’s Roman Plow creates a utilitarian trap. Oh, and how The Expendables does, too.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/roman-plow-sovereign-tree-seneca-zhuangzi/

#podcast #literature #books #seneca #zhuangzi #daoism #taoism #stoicism #cincinnatus #cicero

Daily Stoic 🗿2d ago

People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.

— Seneca

#Stoic #Stoicism #Seneca

co2mmit 3d ago

Do #Stoic teachers like #MarcusAurelius, #Seneca and #Epictetus inform your #ClimateAction? Do you hold yourself to moral teachings beyond just doing what is legal?
https://co2mmit.substack.com/p/climate-action-stoic-twist

Climate Action with a Stoic Twist

Stoic philosophers lived around 2,000 years ago. Yet their insights, morals and writings can inform how we approach climate action in the 21st century.

CO2mmit by Jim Tolbert

Igaraba 5d ago

Cuando hay un cargo de conciencia, algo nos puede dar tranquilidad, pero nada nos dará seguridad, pues quien es culpable piensa todo el tiempo que puede ser capturado, aunque nunca ocurra; no tiene descanso cuando duerme, y cuando habla de los crímenes de otro, piensa en los suyos

Seneca, Cartas a lucilio
#atelierfilosofico #seneca #estoicismo

Daily Stoic 🗿Apr 24

He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive.

— Seneca

#Stoic #Stoicism #Seneca

Wisdom in Space Apr 24

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
-- Seneca

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Seneca #Honor #Life

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #GreatSandDunes #Colorado

Igaraba Apr 23

Estoy seguro, Lucilio, de que para ti es claro que nadie tiene una vida feliz, ni siquiera so portable, sin la búsqueda de la sabiduría; y también sabes que tendremos una vida realmente feliz cuando alcancemos la sabiduría total.

Seneca
#filosofia #atelierfilosofico #seneca

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Virtue-ally Unbothered Apr 19

Embrace each autumn breeze as a chance to tend to both the world around you and the steady confidence within turning fear into fertile ground for growth. #Stoicism #MarcusAurelius #Seneca #PersonalGrowth #SelfImprovement #WellBeing #Philosophy #Wisdom #StoicMindset #Courage (5/5)

WIST Quotations Apr 16

A quotation from Accius

Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.

[Óderint, dum métuant.]

Accius (170-c. 86 BC) Roman tragic poet, literary scholar [Lucius Accius, Lucius Attius]
Atreus (fragment 168) [tr. Kline (2010)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/lucius-accius/20033/

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Accius - Atreus (fragment 168) [tr. Kline (2010)] | WIST Quotations

Let them hate me, so long as they fear me. [Óderint, dum métuant.] A fragment from Accius' work, known only by its quotation by others. The phrase was often used by classical writers as a hallmark of a tyrannical ruler. This includes: Cicero, Pro Sestio, 48/102 (where he regrets that…

WIST Quotations

EAS Watcher Apr 15

#EAS #WEA for Hancock, #OH; #Sandusky, #OH; #Seneca, #OH; #Wood, #OH: National Weather Service: #TORNADO WARNING in this area until 5:00 PM EDT. Take shelter now in a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. If you are outdoors, in a mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect yourself from flying debris. Check media. Source: NWS Cleveland OH

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