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dozens edited this page Nov 7, 2025
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:philosophy:
How to live a life worth living
- Justice
- Courage
- Wisdom
- Temperance
- things you can control: judgments (values, beliefs), desires (and aversions), and actions. everything else is indifferent.
- virtues: wisdom, courage, temperance, justice
- don't complain or gossip
- live according to nature: as a rational, social creature.
- we are citizens of the world, not of any nation/state/tribe
- daily review: don't close your eyes without reflecting on the day
- premeditation of adversity
- fate willing
- contemplation of the whole
- broaden your view; view from above
- everything changes, nothing is permanent
- contemplation of change
- contemplation of impermanence
- what is man? a rational beast that must die
- momento mori: remember you're going to die, so you don't forget to live
- amore fati: love your fate
- live with gratitude
- live in the present moment
- act for the common good
- weigh your impressions with care
- Zeno
- Epictetus
- Seneca
- Marcus Aurelius
What is not stoicism?
- Cynicism
- Epicureanism