Stoicism isn’t Pessimistic. It’s Boldly Optimistic.
When I was nineteen years old I was told to read a book: Meditations, by the stoic philosopher emperor Marcus Aurelius. Of course, I didn’t fully understand it at the time, again I was a teenager, but
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