The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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Stoicism
Stoicism is the most-tested philosophy in human history — practised by Roman emperors, freed slaves, and quietly today by anyone reading a book by Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, or Seneca. At its centre: a brutal clarity about what is, and is not, in your control. Everything else is…
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