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Book: The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
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  1. Ryan Holiday _ The Daily Stoic: 366

    we don't need to constantly compare ourselves with other people
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  2. Ryan Holiday _ The Daily Stoic: 366

    The reality is that we're all guilty of thinking we know it all, and we'd all learn more if we could set that attitude aside. As smart or successful as we may be, there is always someone who is smarter, more successful, and wiser than us. Emerson put it well: "Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
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    What's the point of having countless books and libraries, whose titles could hardly be read through in a lifetime. The learner is not taught, but burdened by the sheer volume, and it's better to plant the seeds of a few authors than to be scattered about by many." -SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND, 9.4 T
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    But what is philosophy? Doesn't it simply mean preparing ourselves for what may come? Don't you understand that really amounts to saying that if I would so prepare myself to endure, then let anything happen that will? Otherwise, it would be like the boxer exiting the ring because he took some punches. Actually, you can leave the boxing ring without consequence, but what advantage would come from abandoning the pursuit of wisdom? So, what should each of us say to every trial we face? This is what I've trained for, for this my discipline!" -EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.10.6–7
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    which is to say, stand with the philosopher, or else with the mob!" -EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.15.13 W"
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    Zeno would also say that nothing is more hostile to a firm grasp on knowledge than self-deception." -DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS, 7.23
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    Seneca observes how often powerful people are slaves to their money, to their positions, to their mistresses, even-as was legal in Rome-to their slaves. "No
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    Believe me, it's better to produce the balance-sheet of your own life than that of the grain market." -SENECA, ON THE BREVITY OF LIFE, 18.3b T
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    June 16th NO SHAME IN NEEDING HELP "Don't be ashamed of needing help. You have a duty to fulfill just like a soldier on the wall of battle. So what if you are injured and can't climb up without another soldier's help?" -MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.7 No one ever said you were born with all the tools you'd need to solve every problem you'd face in life. In fact, as a newborn you were practically helpless. Someone helped you then, and you came to understand that you could ask for that help. It was how you knew you were loved. Well, you are still loved. You can ask anyone for help. You don't have to face everything on your own. If you need help, comrade, just ask.
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    Don't let your reflection on the whole sweep of life crush you. Don't fill your mind with all the bad things that might still happen. Stay focused on the present situation and ask yourself why it's so unbearable and can't be survived." -MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.36
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    Where is Good? In our reasoned choices. Where is Evil? In our reasoned choices. Where is that which is neither Good nor Evil? In the things outside of our own reasoned choice." -EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.16.1 T
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    Heraclitus called self-deception an awful disease and eyesight a lying sense." -DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS,
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