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Affermazioni stoiche

Affermazioni stoiche sulla forza e la resilienza, con le parole degli stoici

Gli stoici non hanno scritto affermazioni sulla forza, ma hanno descritto in che cosa consiste: per Marco Aurelio la mente trasforma ogni impedimento in un aiuto e resta salda come un promontorio contro cui si infrangono le onde. Seneca aggiunge che la forza si acquista con l’uso, come quella del corpo, e che il dolore è lieve se l’opinione non vi aggiunge nulla.

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Marco Aurelio · Meditations, V, 20

Now it is true that these may impede my action, but they are no impediments to my affects and disposition, which have the power of acting conditionally and changing: for the mind converts and changes every hindrance to its activity into an aid; and so that which is a hindrance is made a furtherance to an act; and that which is an obstacle on the road helps us on this road.

George Long, 1862 · Meditations, V, 20

Marco Aurelio · Meditations, IV, 49

Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

George Long, 1862 · Meditations, IV, 49

Seneca · On Providence, IV

The strongest part of the body is that which is exercised by the most frequent use: we must entrust ourselves to fortune to be hardened by her against herself: by degrees she will make us a match for herself.

Aubrey Stewart, 1889 · On Providence, IV

Seneca · Letter 78, §13

Pain is slight if opinion has added nothing to it; but if, on the other hand, you begin to encourage yourself and say, “It is nothing,—a trifling matter at most; keep a stout heart and it will soon cease”; then in thinking it slight, you will make it slight.

Richard Mott Gummere, 1917–1925 · Letter 78, §13

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In Stoïque il tema di vita «Paura» apre i passi su questo argomento, ciascuno con il suo riferimento. Il tema fa parte di Stoic+.

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