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"A Hundred Times Every Day": Einstein on the Labors of Others
Albert Einstein's profound reflection on the interconnectedness of human knowledge and experience. A closer look at the quote and its implications for modern life.
Verified stoicism quotes with primary sources and historical context.
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Albert Einstein's profound reflection on the interconnectedness of human knowledge and experience. A closer look at the quote and its implications for modern life.
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A directive in Book VII that anticipates two thousand years of contemplative practice.
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Letter IX of the Letters to Lucilius is a Stoic case for friendship as constitutive, not optional.
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A line from Arrian's compilation that has crossed into folk wisdom worldwide.
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The opening argument of De Brevitate Vitae, and why it has not aged.
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A line from the Letters that prefigures cognitive behavioural therapy by nearly two thousand years.
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A common attribution, a real underlying idea, and a sentence Seneca did not quite write.
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The opening sentence of the Enchiridion is the foundation of Stoic practice.
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A single sentence that became the operating premise of cognitive behavioural therapy.
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A close reading of one of the most quoted passages from the Meditations — what it actually says, and what it doesn't.
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The opening of Book II is one of the most practical — and most uncomfortable — passages in the Meditations.
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How a single sentence in Book II turns death from a threat into an instruction.
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A four-word sentence that sits at the centre of Stoic psychology.