Sublime

Handbook

Walden,

Journal,

Although they value tranquility, they feel duty-bound to be active participants in the society in which they live. But such participation clearly

Discourse on Method.

TWENTY-TWO Practicing Stoicism

We should, he says, learn to restrain luxury, cultivate frugality, and “view poverty with unprejudiced eyes.”

We will reconsider our goals in living. In particular, we will take to heart the Stoic claim that many of the things we desire—most notably, fame and fortune—are not worth pursuing.

German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer; his essays “Wisdom of Life” and “Counsels and Maxims,” although not explicitly Stoical, have a distinctly Stoical tone.