# Stoicism (MoC) ## Notes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #stoicism AND !#type/quote AND !#type/creation/quote WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> <!-- SerializedQuery: LIST FROM #stoicism AND !#type/quote AND !#type/creation/quote WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> - [[Anti-goals]] - [[Dichotomy of control]] - [[Epictetus]] - [[Neostoicism]] - [[Seneca]] - [[Stoic archer]] - [[Stoic values]] - [[Summum Bonum]] - [[The essence of Stoicism]] - [[Think less about the future, the things you hope might happen or the things you fear may happen. They rob you of the present]] - [[What’s bad for the hive is bad for the bee]] <!-- SerializedQuery END --> ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #stoicism AND (#type/quote OR #type/creation/quote) WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> <!-- SerializedQuery: LIST FROM #stoicism AND (#type/quote OR #type/creation/quote) WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> - [[A true philosopher is a fighter not a fencer. A fencer has to put on armour and pick up a weapon. A fighter just has to close his fist]] - [[Acting virtuously isn’t the easy path; it is the essential path]] - [[Be patient, good things come to those who wait]] - [[Being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more]] - [[Chasing what can’t be done is madness. But the base person is unable to do anything else]] - [[Do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or honored]] - [[Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you]] - [[Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end]] - [[Give yourself a gift, the present moment]] - [[If you are defeated once and tell yourself you will overcome, but carry on as before, know in the end you’ll be so ill and weakened that eventually you won’t even notice your mistake and will begin to rationalise your behaviour]] - [[If you are pained by external things, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgement about it]] - [[It’s ruinous for the soul to be anxious about the future]] - [[Keep constant guard over your perceptions]] - [[Life is long if you know how to use it]] - [[Remember to conduct yourself in life as if at a banquet]] - [[The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way]] - [[The obstacle on the path becomes the way]] - [[What is bad luck. Opinion. What are conflict, dispute, blame, accusation, irreverence, and frivolity. They are all opinions]] - [[What progress, you ask, have I made. I have begun to be a friend to myself]] - [[When giving your wife or kids a kiss, repeat to yourself, I am kissing a mortal]] - [[Whenever someone has done wrong by you, immediately consider what notion of good or evil they had in doing it]] <!-- SerializedQuery END -->