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Afirmações estoicas

Afirmações estoicas de força e resiliência, nas palavras dos estoicos

Os estoicos não escreveram afirmações de força, mas descreveram em que ela consiste: para Marco Aurélio a mente converte cada impedimento em ajuda e fica firme como um promontório contra o qual as ondas quebram. Sêneca acrescenta que a força se adquire pelo uso, como a do corpo, e que a dor é leve se a opinião nada lhe acrescenta.

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Marco Aurélio · 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 Aurélio · 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

Sêneca · 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

Sêneca · 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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No Stoïque, o tema de vida “Medo” abre as passagens sobre esse assunto, cada uma com sua referência. O tema faz parte do Stoic+.

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