That's Mr Stoicism To You Kind Sir!

I really enjoy reading-The Project Gutenberg eBook of Roman Stoicism, by E. Vernon Arnold. Really cool book that is easy to read about some of histories greatest stoic philosophers.

"Zeno had not the kind of originality which begins by assuming a general principle, and then explains all things human and divine by deductions from it. Instead of this he gathered together (as Aristotle had done before, but with a very different bias) what seemed most sound and illuminating in the teaching of all the schools which surrounded him. He did this in a positive spirit, feeling assured that truth exists and is discernible, and must be consistent in all its parts."Pg 94

"But the teaching of Zeno does not lend itself to that kind of study which assigns all new facts to compartments of thought ready labelled in advance, nor can it be summarized by any of the technical terms which are in use in modern philosophical thought. Enough has perhaps been said to show that, great as was the debt of Zeno to his predecessors, he was no mere imitator or plagiarist; the history of the following centuries will shew that he had in some sense touched the pulses of human life more truly than any of his contemporaries." Pg 94

Zeno of Citium Theory of Knowledge

The most powerful and most dangerous weapon in the world is knowledge.

 

Powerful to those that seek to shine light where there is darkness and dangerous to those that try to keep the darkness alive and feeding on your pity and fear.

"From this time he no longer restricted his outlook to force of character, but sought also for argumentative power and well ascertained knowledge. The foundations of his state must be surely laid, not upon the changing tide of opinion, but on the rock of knowledge. That a wise man should hesitate, change his views, withdraw his advice, he felt would be a bitter reproach[44]. If indeed virtue, the supreme good, is knowledge, must it not follow that knowledge is within the reach of man?" Pg 85- The Project Gutenberg eBook of Roman Stoicism, by E. Vernon Arnold.

Learn to be like Elsa and Maarcus Aurelius

         Be like Elsa and just let it go!

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The Teachings of Epictetus

Great advice from a dead guy.

To bestow no more upon objects than they deserve; and where things are indifferent, to let our thoughts be so too, is a noble expedient for happiness, and this faculty we have in our souls. The way to attain to this indifference is to look through matters, and take them quite asunder, remembering always that things cannot enter into the soul, nor force upon us any opinions about them; they are quiet. It is our fancy that makes opinions about them; it is we that write within ourselves, though it is in our power not to write.

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