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Wisdom about stoicism.

What people have learned about stoicism the hard way, and what the classics said about it first.

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From the library

2 public-domain lines, each checked against its source text

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.
Inner Work
Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are.