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    Stoicism: Virtues and Vices to Help You Cure Anxiety
    Stoicism: Virtues and Vices to Help You Cure Anxiety
    Stoicism: Virtues and Vices to Help You Cure Anxiety
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    Stoicism: Virtues and Vices to Help You Cure Anxiety

    By Hector Janssen

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    What are the four virtues of stoicism?



    In this book, you will find fascinating thoughts on courage, temperance, justice, and wisdom. We will touch on these topics and help you understand why they are so important. This can make a huge difference in your life.



    Stoicism can also help people react better to each other in family relationships. With the virtues described, great improvements can be made in the way we interact with each other. This is the central theme of most of this guide.



    Lastly, one chapter is devoted to overcoming anxiety through stoicism, something many people have successfully done.
    Don’t wait and learn more about yourself, relationships, and the virtues you can probably increase in your life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEfalon Acies
    Release dateSep 17, 2020
    ISBN9788835896142

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      The info in this book was exceptional. Any person could put a publication together around this particular topic, however this one stood out. I might in fact tell someone about it. Therefore, with that being mentioned, I do strongly recommend it.

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      I recommend this book to anybody who has an interest in topics like these. A few of the chapters were more appealing than other ones, obviously. I feel you need to try it also. Therefore, with this being said, I do highly recommend it.

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    Stoicism - Hector Janssen

    Stoicism

    Virtues and Vices to Help You Cure Anxiety

    By Hector Janssen

    Table of Contents

    Chapter 1: What Are The 4 Virtues of Stoicism?

    Chapter 2: What Are the Best Books on Stoicism?

    Chapter 3: Family Values and Stoicism

    Chapter 4: More about Stoicism in Families

    Chapter 5: Conquering Anxiety

    Chapter 1: What Are The 4 Virtues of Stoicism?

    Stoicism is an age-old Greek school of philosophy founded at Athens by Zeno of Citium. The academy was teaching that virtue, which the highest good, is based on knowledge; the wise live in harmony with the divine Reason (also identified with Fate and Providence) that rules nature and are indifferent to the vicissitudes of fortune and to pleasure and pain.

    Another definition is this, The endurance of pain or hardship without the display of feelings and without complaint.

    And therefore, in a nutshell, these are the four virtues that stoicism preaches:

    Courage.

    Temperance.

    Justice.

    Wisdom.

    They are the most necessary values in Stoic philosophy. If, at some time in your life, Marcus Aurelius wrote, you should discover anything better than justice, truth, self-discipline, courage-- it must be a remarkable thing undoubtedly. That was practically twenty centuries ago. We have found a lot of things ever since-- automobiles, the Internet, remedies for diseases that were previously a death sentence-- but have we found anything better?

    ... than being brave

    ... than small amounts and sobriety

    ... than doing what is right

    ... than truth and understanding?

    No, we have not. It's unlikely we ever will. Every little thing we face in life is an opportunity to react with these four characteristics:

    Courage

    If you have read Cormac McCarthy's dark and beautiful novella All the Pretty Horses, you will remember the crucial question that Emilio Perez asks John Grady, one that cuts to the core of life and what all of us should do to live a life worth living.

    The world needs to know if you have cojones. If you are brave?

    The Stoics may have phrased this a bit in a different way. Seneca would say that he actually pitied people who have never experienced bad luck. You have passed through life without a challenger, he said, No one can ever know what you are very capable of, not even you.

    The world needs to know what

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