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“Do not disturb yourself by imagining your whole life at once. Don’t always be thinking about what sufferings, and how many, might possibly befall you. Ask instead, in each present circumstance: “What is there about this that is unendurable and unbearable?” You will be embarrassed to answer. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.36”
― The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual
― The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual
“true justice is paying for something once; injustice is paying for it over and over again.”
― The Mastery of Self: A Toltec Guide to Personal Freedom
― The Mastery of Self: A Toltec Guide to Personal Freedom
“Epicureanism was devised specifically as a “salvation” philosophy, a positive way of escape from a most unpleasant social and political environment. So it became imperative, in a positive sense, for the Epicureans to imitate the perfect serenity and self-sufficiency of their own idealized gods, who were actually a psychological projection of the kind of beings they themselves wanted to be.”
― The Philosophy of Epicurus
― The Philosophy of Epicurus
“the universe as a whole is eternal, although individual worlds within the system are born and die; and if the universe is eternal it must be self-sustaining and require no divine assistance for its maintenance.”
― The Philosophy of Epicurus
― The Philosophy of Epicurus
“If man is nothing but a material mechanism and part of the world mechanism, then his choices of good and evil are mechanically determined, and he cannot be said to be an autonomous and responsible ethical being. Thus if materialism is to save moral responsibility and at the same time save determinism, it must represent man as partially determined (in his organic functions) and partially free (in his ethical capacity).”
― The Philosophy of Epicurus
― The Philosophy of Epicurus
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