stoic preparation for misfortune
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Key Takeaway: Not pessimism but rational preparation.
Not pessimism but rational preparation. Central to Seneca's Letters and Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. • Your task is not elsewhere. • The first words of the text
As the Stoic philosophers — particularly Marcus Aurelius in his Meditations and Seneca in his Letters — wrote, Not pessimism but rational preparation.
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