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Lord Acton’s line is so famous and so undeniably true that most people don’t even know that it’s a q
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In his new book, The Laws of Human Nature, Robert Greene concludes his final chapter with this medit
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The response to the Daily Stoic emails can be a fascinating peek into human psychology. One email, b
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Why did Marcus Aurelius spend those precious hours in his tent, writing by the lamplight, even on th
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In a very short period around 2003, the musician Rosanne Cash lost her sister, her step mother, her
William MacAskill is a fascinating guy. He is the youngest Associate Professor in Philosophy at the
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So much of what we do as a society could be described as arguing with reality. Turn on cable news an
Here’s a line from Seneca: “We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” Meaning, we spend so muc
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