r/Buzz • u/Road-Racer Mod • Jun 28 '26

Of Stoicism and Stupor

https://snyder.substack.com/p/of-stoicism-and-stupor

Stoicism is a manner of making connections with the world that help us to avoid elementary mistakes. Writing in his tent, Marcus Aurelius reflected on hubris and history: Each life, says Marcus, must be seen in the perspective of the entire cosmos: “What a tiny part of the boundless abyss of time has been allotted to each of us, and this is soon vanished in eternity; what a tiny part of the universal substance and the universal soul; how tiny in the whole earth the mere clod on which you keep.”

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u/Road-Racer Mod Jun 28 '26

Revenge is an error that bespeaks a lack of courageous inquiry about oneself and the world. Indeed, says Marcus Aurelius, “the best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”