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A MEDITATION

“ To us human beings, living virtuously is the same thing as living happily.

— Musonius Rufus

Lectures 17

On virtue

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A reflection

Modern culture splits the two: be good OR be happy. The Stoic move is to collapse them. Lie and win? You lost. Be decent and get passed over? You won. Character and wellbeing turn out to be the same quantity, measured at different times.

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