STOICISM | How to Worry Less in Hard Times

The Stoics had some profound things to say about dealing with external circumstances, and how to live peacefully in the face of hardship and a troubled future.

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Tonitza painting: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Nicolae_Tonitza_-_Coada_la_paine.jpg
Triumph of death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death#/media/File:The_Triumph_of_Death_by_Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder.jpg
Marcus Aurelius: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius#/media/File:0_Relief_-_Monument_honoraire_de_Marc_Aur%C3%A8le_-_La_soumission_des_germains_(1).JPG
Knocking: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/La_mauvaise_nouvelle%2C_1885.jpg
Epictetus (1): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Epicteti_Enchiridion_Latinis_versibus_adumbratum_%28Oxford_1715%29_frontispiece.jpg/800px-Epicteti_Enchiridion_Latinis_versibus_adumbratum_%28Oxford_1715%29_frontispiece.jpg
Epictetus (2): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Epictetus_-_Henri_Bonnart_engraving_c._1700.png/800px-Epictetus_-_Henri_Bonnart_engraving_c._1700.png
Epictetus (3): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Epictetus_portrait_from_Les_Morales_de_Plutarque%2C_S%C3%A9n%C3%A8que%2C_Socrate_et_Epict%C3%A8te%2C_1653%2C_Indian_ink.png
Worldmap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_map#/media/File:OrteliusWorldMap1570.jpg
Memento mori: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori#/media/File:StillLifeWithASkull.jpg
Seneca’s death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger#/media/File:Manuel_Dom%C3%ADnguez_S%C3%A1nchez_-_El_suicidio_de_S%C3%A9neca.jpg
Great depression: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/American_union_bank.gif

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