Why Are You Surprised? | 12 Stoic Strategies on How To Stop Caring What People Think
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🗓️ 6 June 2025
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We have to be prepared for what people will do. That isn’t to say we need to become cynical, but it is to say that we have stop fooling ourselves.
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| 1:47.0 | and justice and wisdom. For more, visit daily stoic.com. Why are you surprised? They showed you their character, they told you with their past behavior, |
| 2:09.8 | and here you are nevertheless surprised. That a boxer, to borrow Mark Surrealius's metaphor from |
| 2:15.9 | meditations who bit and gouged before would do it again, that a scorpion, to borrow Marks Aurelius' metaphor from meditations, who bit and gouged before would do it |
| 2:18.2 | again, that a scorpion to borrow from Aesop would sting the frog. Only a fool, Epictetus said, |
| 2:25.3 | would expect figs in winter. It is equally foolish, the Stoics remind us to expect the wicked |
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