Felix Förtsch
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63 lines
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title: "Enchiridion Reduced"
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- Personal
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- English
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1) Some things are in our control and other things are not.
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2) Shun only those things you have the power to avoid; desire only those things you have the power to acquire.
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3) Look first at things as they are, letting your own sentiments about them fall to the wayside.
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4) Practice negative visualization and keep your will in alignment with nature.
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5) It is our perceptions of things, rather than the things themselves, that cause us disturbance, so choose your perceptions wisely.
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6) Be proud only of what is under your control: the choices you make.
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7) Remember that your purpose is to steer a virtuous course through life, and that the things which come and go are merely incidental of that purpose.
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8) Will things to happen as they will.
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9) Nothing can alter the power of our own will.
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10) Whenever you are confronted by a problem ask of yourself what skills or knowledge you possess to help overcome it.
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11) The loss of something is merely a return to before you had it.
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12) Do not allow external indifferents to determine your state of mind; that is the job of your will.
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13) It is no good being indifferent to externals if you are not also indifferent to the opinions of others.
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14) Freedom is desire without expectation.
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15) Practice moderation and, failing that, abstinence.
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16) Do not judge those who do not understand that it is only their choices that cause suffering, but rather offer them a shoulder to cry on.
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17) Whichever part you are given in life, play it well!
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18) Omens are a fool's game.
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19) Symbols of status say nothing of their owner's attitude towards external indifferents. In this capacity we are all equal.
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20) If someone strikes you it remains within your power to either take offence or not.
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21) Remember always that bad things and death will happen to you, and your thoughts will remain true and free of vice.
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22) If learning Stoicism creates in you a supercilious sentiment towards others then you have not yet learnt Stoicism.
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23) The only validation you need is from yourself.
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24) True friends help one another to acquire virtue rather than external indifferents.
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25) If someone has something you don't, rejoice for them and be glad you have not had to pay the price for it.
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26) We should respond to the breaking of our favourite cup just as if it had been our neighbour who broke their cup; this same principle also applies to the loss of our loved ones.
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27) The only bad is the absence of virtue in your own actions.
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28) It is your choice whether or not to take offence to an insult; but doing so ingratiates the insulter.
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29) Do not set a goal without first considering what its achievement requires and what might result from it in the worst case as well as the best.
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30) Focus not on how others treat you but on how you must treat them in order to keep your will in accordance with nature.
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31) There is no need to praise or curse the gods for the state of externals; only trust that they rule with wisdom.
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32) Divination of Triumph and Disaster should be met without Desire or Aversion.
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33) Be authentic; speak only when necessary; practice abstinence; avoid making promises; don't be promiscuous; keep your faults salient; be wary of the corrupting influence of others; aim for sagitude.
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34) When faced with temptation consider first how you will regard yourself after either gratification or abstention.
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35) Do the right thing regardless of the opinions of others.
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36) Courtesy and greed are mutually exclusive.
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37) Don't take on a role you know you can't play.
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38) Just as you choose your steps to avoid rusty nails, choose your thoughts to avoid stress.
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39) You can satisfy your needs but if you try to acquire more than that your desires will only grow.
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40) Women are also people.
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41) Food, exercise and sex should be done incidentally with the vast majority of our strength directed towards reason.
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42) A perpetrator of injustice against you has deceived themselves in the face of nature and, in doing so, have harmed themselves more than they have harmed you.
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43) All things have two handles.
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44) You are not your possessions, nor are you your skills.
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45) Avoid moralising about the behaviour of others but rather describe what they are actually doing.
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46) Don't say what should be done; do what should be done.
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47) Privation for the sake of praise is not privation.
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48) Keep watch over your will.
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49) Intellectualism for its own sake is blind to nature.
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50) Do not stop taking steps towards your own ideals.
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51) Live virtuously and stand aside for Fate. |