Wherever we betake ourselves, two things that are most admirable will go with us—universal nature and our own virtue.
—Seneca, De Consolatione Ad Marciam
At the heart of Stoicism lies a radical revaluation of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ that depends not on particular external things and events, but instead arises from the realisation of one’s own intimate participation in the Universal. From this vision of the Whole and the cultivation of one’s relationship with the Whole comes virtue.
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