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From A Guide to Stoicism for Creatives, Entrepreneurs, and Freelancers by Brian McFadden

Don’t just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.

From A Guide to Stoicism for Creatives, Entrepreneurs, and Freelancers by Brian McFadden

Does what’s happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness, and all other qualities that allow a person’s nature to fulfill itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune. —Marcus Aurelius

From A Guide to Stoicism for Creatives, Entrepreneurs, and Freelancers by Brian McFadden

If you seek tranquility, do less. Or (more accurately) do what’s essential. Do less, better. Because most of what we do or say is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more tranquility. But to eliminate the necessary actions, we need to eliminate unnecessary assumptions as well. — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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