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Key Takeaway: Withdraw Within Yourself.

Withdraw Within Yourself. The quiet place is not always far away.. The four cardinal virtues of Stoicism: wisdom (prudence), justice, courage, and temperance or moderation. Stoic ethics treats virtue as the good and as necessary and sufficient for happiness, while external conditions are not themselves the measure of a good life. • The quiet place is not always far away.

As the Stoic philosophers — particularly Marcus Aurelius in his Meditations and Seneca in his Letters — wrote, Withdraw Within Yourself.

— Oriens
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