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9. One ought to approach life with a positive attitude, choosing to look on things positively is a sufficient choice you make | 9. One ought to approach life with a positive attitude, choosing to look on things positively is a sufficient choice you make every day to reach a realistic state of happiness. | ||
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Practice and strive for the 4 stoic virtues: Justice, wisdom, temperance and courage. Avoid the 4 vices: Injustice, foolishness, intemperance and cowardice. | Practice and strive for the 4 stoic virtues: Justice, wisdom, temperance and courage. Avoid the 4 vices: Injustice, foolishness, intemperance and cowardice. | ||
Wisdom means being able to tell what's right and what's wrong without prejudice, approaching everything | Wisdom means being able to tell what's right and what's wrong without prejudice, approaching everything logically and calmy and understand what is to be chosen or avoided. Justice means to always be fair and do the right thing even when something is wrong. Courage is to do the right thing even if you feel like it can be harmful for you, facing challenges and struggles without complaint, applying wisdom to things we fear. Temperance is the willpower for volontary self-restraint and moderation to things we are attracted to and ought not to be gluttoned. | ||
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3. Anger is an emotion that erodes the fabric of who we are. Thus one ought to learn how to control it, a way to do this is to remember: "It isn't potent (manly) to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore more potent (manlier)." and that "One's anger is more likely to do more harm than how much someone is wrong". | 3. Anger is an emotion that erodes the fabric of who we are. Thus, one ought to learn how to control it, a way to do this is to remember: "It isn't potent (manly) to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore more potent (manlier)." and that "One's anger is more likely to do more harm than how much someone is wrong". | ||