This Also Cannot Be Taken (Only Given Up) | Ask Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 26 June 2025
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Why should a Stoic let the awfulness of the world make them feel awful? Why would we let someone else’s darkness cast a shadow on our own life?
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| 0:13.1 | a tough time all over the world. I mean, look, I'm having a tough time. I don't think it's easy to be a |
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