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Contemporary Stoicism... - Tom Wolfe -A Man in Full
"For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life." Epictitus
Stoics sound a bit like Vulcans... Review of Star Trek X1
"The stoics considered destructive emotions to be the result of errors in judgment, and that a sage, or person of "moral and intellectual perfection," would not undergo such emotions. Stoics were concerned with the active relationship between cosmic determinism and human freedom, and the belief that it is virtuous to maintain a will that is in accord with nature." - Wikipedia
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