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“If you wish to improve,” Epictetus once said, “be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters.”
Ryan Holiday • Stillness Is the Key
eat as a proper human being, drink as a proper human being, dress, marry, father children, perform your public duties; put up with being abused, put up with an inconsiderate brother, put up with a father, a son, a neighbour, a fellow traveller. [6] Show us these things to enable us to see that you really have learned something from the philosophers
... See moreEpictetus • Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford World's Classics)
Être philosophe, ce n’est pas simplement avoir des pensées subtiles, ni même fonder une école, mais aimer la sagesse au point de vivre selon ses préceptes, une vie de simplicité, d’indépendance, de magnanimité et de confiance. C’est résoudre quelques-uns des problèmes de la vie, non pas de manière théorique, mais pratique.
Henry D. THOREAU, Jim Harrison, Brice MATTHIEUSSENT, • Walden (LITTERATURES) (French Edition)
“I’ve been taking all these philosophy courses, and we talk about what’s true, what’s important, what’s good. Well, how do you teach people to be good?” And, she added, “What’s the point of knowing good if you don’t keep trying to become a good person?”
Dallas Willard • The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
La philosophie ne consiste pas à coucher à la dure ou à écrire des dialogues, mais à redresser son caractère. Elle ne réside ni dans l'enflure sophistique, les dissertations livresques, les déclamations prétentieuses, ni dans l'ostentation, mais au contraire dans la simplicité.
Pierre Hadot • La Citadelle intérieure : Introduction aux Pensées de Marc Aurèle (Essais) (French Edition)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
“Ask yourself the following first thing in the morning: What am I lacking in attaining freedom from passion? What for tranquility? What am I? A mere body, estate-holder, or reputation? None of these things. What, then? A rational being. What then is demanded of me? Meditate on your actions. How did I steer away from serenity? What did I do that was
... See moreStephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
“Philosophy does not claim to get a person any external possession. To do so would be beyond its field. As wood is to the carpenter, bronze to the sculptor, so our own lives are the proper material in the art of living.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES
Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
ACCORDING TO MUSONIUS, we should study philosophy, since how otherwise could we hope to live well?14 Furthermore, he says that studying philosophy should affect us personally and profoundly; indeed, when a philosopher lectures, his words should make those in his audience shudder and feel ashamed, and when he is done speaking, they should, rather th
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