Boa tarde pessoal, feliz 2021!
Estava revisando umas notas pessoais e achei uma sobre estoicismo, adaptei pois queria compartilhar ela aqui no site (já que o estoicismo contém muita coisa Cleiton).
Gostaria de ler de vocês suas interpretações e opiniões acerca de algumas frases, estão numeradas para facilitar a referência (e com um emoji para deixar mais colorido e menos carregado). Em uma delas
(1) deixei uma interpretação minha.
EDITADO: Para deixar mais divertido, que tal sortear! Escolha um número de 1 até 32 e interprete a frase :D
Favorite Quotes:
1) “I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent—no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.” – Sêneca Entendo dessa frase que é a pessoa que vive como vítima, Sêneca parece sentir pena pois alguém que nunca passou por adversidades nunca descobriu do que ela é capaz, qual o potencial intrínseco de superar desafios e atingir metas. Seria uma pessoa que não toma riscos, por medo de rejeição, por vergonha, por achar que não é capaz, e acaba vivendo uma vida sem grandes feitos, sem um legado propriamente dito. As adversidades não são desejadas pelos estoicos, claro ninguém gosta de perrengues, mas você deve tratá-las como meios de aprendizado para enaltecer suas virtudes e alcançar seus objetivos, foco. Se vitimizar não trará nada de benéfico. 2) 
"Imagine breaking a leg and needing to sit in bed for four months while it heals. A Stoic would attempt to guide their thoughts away from useless “woe is me” rumination and focus instead on how they might do something productive while bedridden (e.g., write their first book). They would try to reframe the event as a way to cultivate their patience and become more creative."
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"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be One.” – Marcus Aurelius
4)"The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own…” – Epictetus
5) “Keep death and exile before your eyes each day, along with everything that seems terrible— by doing so, you’ll never have a base thought nor will you have excessive desire.” - Epictetus
6) “Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day. … The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.” - Seneca
7) “External things are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.” – Marcus Aurelius
8) "If anyone is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act correctly, I will gladly change. I seek the truth, and no one was ever injured by truth. Injury only comes to those who persist in error and ignorance." - Marcus Aurelius 9) “Objective judgement, now at this very moment.Unselfish action, now at this very moment.Willing acceptance—now at this very moment—of all external events.That’s all you need.” – Marcus Aurelius 10) "Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill. People do not choose to behave the way they do so that men of a certain type should behave as they do is inevitable. To wish it other[REMOVIDO] were to wish the fig-tree would not [REMOVIDO] its juice." – Marcus Aurelius 11) "You can spend so much time getting ready to live that you never get around to actually living". - (Practical Stoicism; Ready Your Tools) 12) "Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it is easier to maintain control." - (Epictetus - Enchiridion XX) 13) "Of all existing things some are in our power, and others are not in our power. In our power are thought, impulse, will to get and will to avoid, and, in a word, everything which is our own doing. Things not in our power include the body, property, reputation, office, and, in a word, everything which is not our own doing. Things in our power are by nature free, unhindered, untrammelled; things not in our power are weak, servile, subject to hindrance, dependent on others. Remember then that if you imagine that what is naturally slavish is free, and what is naturally another's is your own, you will be hampered, you will mourn, you will be put to confusion, you will blame gods and men; but if you think that only your own belongs to you, and that what is another's is indeed another's, no one will ever put compulsion or hindrance on you, you will blame none, you will accuse none, you will do nothing against your will, no one will harm you, you will have no enemy, for no harm can touch you." - (Epictetus – Enchiridion I) 14) "We should remind our spirits all the time that they love things that will leave - no, better, things that are already leaving. You possess whatever is given by Fortune without a guarantor." - (Seneca – Consolation to Marcia) 15) "We need to set our affections on some good man and keep him constantly before our eyes, so that we may live as if he were watching us and do everything as if he saw what we were doing". - (Seneca - Letters, 65)16) "I want enduring happiness and tranquility of mind, which come from being a virtuous person." 17) "Muitas vezes não temos controle sobre os eventos que nos afetam, mas temos controle de nossos pensamentos e de como podemos nos aproximar desses eventos" 18) "Às vezes até viver é um ato de coragem" 19) "Nosso sofrimento não vem dos eventos de nossas vidas, mas do julgamento que temos dos eventos" 20) “What is mine, and what is not mine, what is within my power, and what is not” 21) "What, then, is to be done? To make the best of what is in our power, and take the rest as it naturally happens." (Discourses, 1.1.17) 22) “It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”
23) "The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." – Epictetus 24) "On no occasion call yourself a philosopher, nor talk at large of your principles among the multitude, but act on your principles. For instance, at a banquet do not say how one ought to eat, but eat as you ought." - (Epictetus - Enchiridion XLVI) 25) "… if any conversation should arise among uninstructed persons about any theorem, generally be silent; for there is great danger that you will immediately vomit up what you have not digested. And when a man shall say to you that you know nothing, and you are not vexed, then be sure that you have begun the work (of philosophy). For even sheep do not vomit up their grass and show to the shepherds how much they have eaten; but when they have internally digested the pasture, they produce externally wool and milk. Do you also show not your theorems to the uninstructed, but show the acts which come from their digestion." - (Epictetus - Enchiridion XLVI) 26) "Better we should grasp every task we choose to do with both hands, and not let go until we have completed the work to our full satisfaction. Engage with the work - experience it. Live in the moment forcefully enough to remember it happened. 27) If Death comes while you are washing dishes, let him find you scrubbing them spotless. If he comes while you are driving to work, let him find you with both hands on the wheel. And, if he finds you in your bed, go with him satisfied that you have used your allotted minutes well." - (Practical Stoicism - Focus on the thing at hand) 28) "If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong. - (Marcus Aurelius - Meditations IX.38) " 29) "Acquire the contemplative way of seeing how all things change into one another, and constantly attend to it, and exercise yourself about this part of philosophy. For nothing is so much adapted to produce magnanimity. … Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter. - (Marcus Aurelius - Meditations X.11) " 30) "How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself and in no instance bypass the discriminations of reason? You have been given the principles that you ought to endorse, and you have endorsed them. What kind of teacher, then, are you still waiting for in order to refer your self-improvement to him? You are no longer a boy but a full-grown man. If you are careless and lazy now and keep putting things off and always deferring the day after which you will attend to yourself, you will not notice that you are making no progress but you will live and die as someone quite ordinary. From now on, then, resolve to live as a grown-up who is making progress, and make whatever you think best a law that you never set aside. And whenever you encounter anything that is difficult or pleasurable or highly or lowly regarded, remember that the contest is now, you are at the Olympic games, you cannot wait any longer, and that your progress is wrecked or preserved by a single day and a single event. This is how Socrates fulfilled himself by attending to nothing except reason in everything he encountered. And you, although you are not yet Socrates, should live as someone who at least wants to be Socrates." - (Epictetus) 31) "Everyone is improved and preserved by corresponding acts: the carpenter by acts of carpentry, the grammarian by the acts of good grammar. But if a man accustoms himself to write ungrammatically, of necessity his art will be corrupted and destroyed. Thus modest actions preserve the modest man, and immodest actions destroy him. Actions of fidelity preserve the faithful man, and the contrary actions destroy him. And on the other hand, contrary actions strengthen contrary characters: shamelessness strengthens the shameless man, faithlessness the faithless man, abusive words the abusive man, anger the man of an angry temper, and unequal receiving and giving make the greedy man more greedy. For this reason philosophers admonish us not to be satisfied with learning only, but also to add study and then practice." - (Epictetus - Chapter 9, Book 2)
32) "When we have meat before us and such eatables, we receive the impression that this is the dead body of a fish, and this is the dead body of a bird or of a pig; and again, that this Falernian is only a little grape juice, and this purple robe some sheep’s wool dyed with the blood of a shellfish; or, in the matter of sexual intercourse, that it is merely an internal attrition and the spasmodic expulsion of semen: such then are these impressions, and they reach the things themselves and penetrate them, and so we see the things as they truly are. Just in the same way ought we to act all through life, and where there are things that appear most worthy of our approbation, we ought to lay them bare and look at their worthlessness and strip them of all the words by which they are exalted. For outward show is a wonderful perverter of reason, and when you are most sure that you are employed about things worth your pains, it is then that it cheats you most." - (Marcus Aurelius - Meditations VI.13)
