How To Live in an Imperfect World | Practice Gentleness Instead of Anger
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🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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We are in an imperfect world populated with flawed people. We ourselves are flawed. We can’t afford to feel or act superior. We have too much work to do, there is too much good we can do.
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| 1:58.4 | How to live in an imperfect world. How to live in an imperfect world. The world of virtue and rationalities that the Stoics read and wrote about? This was not the world they lived in. They lived, as Cicero said, not in the utopia of Plato's Republic, |
| 2:05.3 | but in the dregs of Romulus. |
| 2:07.7 | That's what Rome was, an imperfect place, |
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