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How to think about God with Cicero
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Epicurus on death and the gods
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What’s your ikigai?
A fascinating Japanese concept can be both very useful and very detrimental
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Epictetus on dying or having lunch
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Should we not be disturbed by the death of a loved one?
An infamous passage in Epictetus’s Manual is the source of endless dismissals of Stoicism as ethical philosophy
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