Nov 6 · 1 min read
As a general rule, I don’t take advice on living from emperors with servants and a personal army.
The stoicism, small “s,” you refer is a bit more complex. The small stoicism is embodied in Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “If.”
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And — which is more — you’ll be a Man, my son!