You’re Afraid of Death Because of This? | 12 Stoic Rules For Life
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🗓️ 15 October 2024
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By thinking, by imagining that we’ve just been given a few months to live, we too can see immediately what we should stop doing. We realize we don’t have any more time to waste.
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