“You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire”
― On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
― On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
“The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.”
― The 4-Hour Workweek
― The 4-Hour Workweek
“The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have to find a sufficiently virulent business plan, condense it into a three-ring binder ― its DNA ― Xerox it, and embed it in the fertile line of a well-traveled highway, preferably one with a left turn lane. Then the growth will expand until it runs up against its property lines.”
― Snow Crash
― Snow Crash
“People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.”
― The 4-Hour Workweek
― The 4-Hour Workweek
“They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”
― On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
― On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
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Stoic Book Club
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This club is about traditional Stoicism with the distinct purpose of enabling and promoting discourse on Stoic philosophy as a way of life.
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