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Thank you for this comment. I came here to say something similar.
Stoicism is a great thing, but it needs to be interpreted in a way that does not lead to a capitalism-compatible milquetoast philosophy that is then used by privileged people to justify their apathy and egoism.
(similar is true for the way how many westerners understand eastern spiritualism and are then happily more concerned about their yoga mattress and shit than of the living beings around them).
Taking these pitfalls in mind, stoicism and meditation-ish self-care can help a lot to avoid breakdown while fighting this horrible machine. 
We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. #stoicism #life #philosophy
"To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable." #stoicism #life #philosophy
"Instead of fighting the world, kill your ego." #stoicism #life #philosophy
"Anything that just costs money is cheap." #stoicism #life #philosophy
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. #stoicism #life #philosophy
"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present." #stoicism #life #philosophy
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@stoicteacher " All the colours of poetry, however splendid, can never paint natural objects in such a manner as to make the description be taken for a real landscape. The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation." - David Hume.
"We suffer more in imagination than in reality." #stoicism #life #philosophy
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for its not the same river and hes not the same man. #stoicism #life #philosophy
"Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it." #stoicism #life #philosophy
"Many are harmed by fear itself, and many may have come to their fate while dreading fate." #stoicism #life #philosophy
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. #stoicism #life #philosophy
"No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it." #stoicism #life #philosophy
"There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and never return." #stoicism #life #philosophy
Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.
— Marcus Aurelius
“Do the external things which fall upon you distract you?
Give yourself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled about.” - Marcus Aurelius #stoicism #philosophy
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. #stoicism #life #philosophy
"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be One." #stoicism #life #philosophy
