stoicism desire simplicity

Key Takeaway: Simplify Your Desire.

Simplify Your Desire. Wanting less can make action cleaner.. 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. • Wanting less can make action cleaner.

As the Stoic philosophers — particularly Marcus Aurelius in his Meditations and Seneca in his Letters — wrote, Simplify Your Desire.

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