Occasional reflections on the wisdom of Ancient Greek and Roman philosophers with Prof. Massimo Pigliucci. Complete index by author and source at https://massimopigliucci.org/stoic-podcast/. (cover art by Marek Škrabák; original music by Ian Jolin-Rasmussen). Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support
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545. Of bitter cucumbers and thorny briars
“A cucumber is bitter.” Throw it away. “There are briars in the road.” Turn aside from them. This is enough. Do not add, “And why were such things made in the world?”
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support544. The inner citadel
The mind that is free from passions is a citadel, for we have nothing more secure to which we can fly for refuge and repel every attack.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support543. The courage to stay
Marcus Aurelius reminds himself that if life is unbearable, one has the option to leave. But we have a duty, toward ourselves and others, to stay, if at all possible.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support542. Value judgments are not inherent in things
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now.
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Take me and cast me where you will; for there I shall keep my divine part tranquil, that is, content, if it can feel and act conformably to its proper constitution.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support540. On fame, posthumous or not
Those who rather pursue posthumous fame do not consider that the people of tomorrow will be exactly like these whom they cannot bear now; and both are mortal.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support539. Three things to care about
It is my delight to keep the ruling faculty sound without turning away from any of the things that happen to people, but looking at and receiving all with welcoming eyes and using everything according to its value.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support538. The nuanced conflict between pleasure and virtue
I see no virtue that is opposed to justice; but I see a virtue that is opposed to love of pleasure, and that is temperance.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support537. How not to get overwhelmed by problems
Do not let your thoughts at once embrace all the various troubles that you may expect to befall you: but on every occasion ask yourself, What is there in this that is intolerable and past bearing?
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support536. A prepared mind is a mark of wisdom
All things happen in a more endurable fashion to people who are prepared for them.
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