Lives of the Stoics

Lives of the Stoics

2020 • 352 pages

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Key takeaways:

- Action is important. It's not enough to know/say what is right, you must actually live it.
- A few bad actions are enough to wipe out a lifetime of virtue.
- Contemplate your own mortality.
- Wealth/poverty, health/sickness, pleasure/pain: none of these are inherently good or bad on their own.
- Virtue seemed to be a resonating theme as the most important thing to pursue.

December 21, 2023