Marcus T. Ryan

and therefore anyone who strived for the highest virtue would find lasting happiness and would be emotionally resilient in the face of any misfortunes.

This is divorced from the true nature of stoicism because a true stoic is genuinely indifferent to pleasure, fear, or pain.

“Men are disturbed not by events, but by their opinions about events.”

you can allow yourself to feel whatever emotions that naturally come to you without giving yourself the impression that there is something wrong with you.

emotions are not right or wrong, they are only felt.

happiness is best found in being content within the present moment and that apprehensive dependence on the happenings of the future should be avoided.

Another axiom that should here be mentioned that also relates to a point previously mentioned is the axiom that a person should avoid caring about what others think of him or her excessively. This point has been made by nearly every philosopher since the birth of philosophy in some form or another,

Another axiom that should here be mentioned that also relates to a point previously mentioned is the axiom that a person should avoid caring about what others think of him or her excessively. This point has been made by nearly every philosopher since the birth of philosophy in some form or another,