stoicism

Stoicism, founded in Athens ca. 300 BCE, teaches that virtue is the only true good and that we should focus on what we control. Its Roman practitioners — Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius — shaped ethical thought across two millennia.

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"Ordo et connexio idearum idem est ac ordo et connexio rerum"

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🇳🇱Baruch Spinoza

"Ordo et connexio idearum idem est ac ordo et connexio rerum"

Zeno of Citium

"No one entrusts a secret to a drunken man; but one will entrust a secret to a good man; therefore, the good man will not get drunk."

"The legislator of the Jews in a bolder spirit went to a further extreme and in the practice of his “naked” philosophy, as they call it, ventured to speak of him who was possessed by love of the divine."

Gaius Musonius Rufus

"Arrian mentions with admiration that every Indian is free. With them, as with the Lacedemonians, he says, no native can be a slave; but unlike the Lacedemonians, they keep no other people in servitude."

🇬🇧George Chapman

"As far as white Aurora's dews are sprinkled through the air."

🇬🇷Chrysippus

"If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy."

Massimo Pigliucci

🇺🇸Massimo Pigliucci

"Once data are ruled out as arbiters among theories, those theories become pointless, just another clever intellectual game."

Seneca

"Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."

Quintus Sextius

"It is not death; but a bad life, which destroys the soul."

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"Even in the case of philosophers who give systematic form to their work, Spinoza for instance, the true inner structure of the system is quite unlike the form in which it was consciously presented by him."

— Baruch Spinoza, b. 1632View →

"I will not attempt to describe here the many lessons that I learned in the study of Spinoza, lessons that in several respects laid the foundation of my philosophy."

— Baruch Spinoza, b. 1632View →

"Spinoza is the noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers. Intellectually, some others have surpassed him, but ethically he is supreme."

— Baruch Spinoza, b. 1632View →

"Let him who wishes weep bitter tears because history moves ahead so perplexingly: two steps forward, one step back. But tears are of no avail. It is necessary according to Spinoza's advice, not to laugh, not to weep, but to understand!"

— Baruch Spinoza, b. 1632View →

"Nothing is less Greek than the conceptual web-spinning of a hermit—amor intellectualis dei—after the fashion of Spinoza."

— Baruch Spinoza, b. 1632View →

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