Book: Letters from a Stoic
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The path to honor, life, and wealth is to subtract from your desires.
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The body should be subservient to the mind. It should exist to serve the mind.
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The stoics believe that the growth of the spirit comes from the difficulty of the task
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The stoics believe that good men do not work themselves on mean work or be busy for the sake of being busy
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An old man who keeps putting off things and who has finished nothing is like an infant.
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He is ill who is always beginning to live
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Two particular strong desires is the love of life and the fear of death
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One way to train yourself morally is by assuming you’re always under the eyes of a moral ideal
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He who has learnt to die has overcome his two greatest desires: The love of life and the fear of death.