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27 February

We must have a positive attitude toward virtues and a negative one such as vices, but besides those, we must be indifferent toward everything else, such as wealth, health, death, what others think, and even our material possessions.

26 February

When Abraham Lincoln would occasionally get mad at one of his generals, he would write a letter exclaiming everything they had wrong and what he thought of it. He would then not send the letter at all. Sometime it's better to leave things unsaid.

“Seneca was an incredibly wealthy, even famous, man—yet he was a Stoic. He had many material things, yet, as the Stoics say, he was also indifferent to them. He enjoyed them while they were there, but he accepted that they might someday disappear. What a better attitude than desperately craving more or fearfully dreading losing even one penny. Indifference is solid middle ground.” —Holiday

Cultivating Indifference Where Others Grow Passion.