That itself was a claim of the Stoics: that the stories and problems of humanity don’t change, but just put on new masks." The idiocies, miseries, and other discouragements of our era tend to seem novel or modern hearing them described in a classical dialogue reminds us that they are nothing new. "The teachings of the Stoics are as interesting and valuable now as when first written-maybe more so, since the passage of two millennia has confirmed so much of what they said.
They said a number of the best things that anyone ever has." But in other ways they were far ahead of their times. "The Stoics had their limitations, of course they held some beliefs that very few people do anymore. They were philosophers of a down-to-earth sort, seeking by force of their insights to free ordinary people from their sufferings and illusions." The Stoics were deep students of fear, status, emotion, and much else that bedeviled the human race thousands of years ago and bedevils it still. “The body of ideas known as Stoicism contains some of the finest and most durable wisdom of any age.
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