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A MEDITATION

“ Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the things which happen by nature.

— Chrysippus

Fragment, in Diogenes Laertius 7.87

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A reflection

Stop fighting the fact that seasons change, people age, plans go sideways. Virtue, for the Stoics, means lining your life up with how reality actually works instead of how you wished it worked. The second argument you lost this week was probably an argument with reality.

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