Jan 5

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Stoicism: Its First and Greatest Principle

If you don’t master this, the rest of the philosophy won’t help you.

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Stoicism is all over Medium. There must be hundreds of articles on the philosophy on this site. With that quantity, I wondered if there was any more to be said on the subject, or if I was the one to say it.

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