There Is No Race | Transformative Quotes From The Founder Of Stoicism (Zeno)

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2:53There is no race. We know that at least one of the Stoics was a runner. Chrysippus ran a grueling three-mile loop consisting of approximately 24 stadium-length wind sprints. Epictetus's leg injury probably precluded much in the way of running, but he was clearly an avid sports fan and his lectures abound with metaphors to prove it. Yet the Stoics' relationship to athletics was slightly different than your average competitor. We know that Chrysippus was a good runner, but he also held that there was something far more important than winning, conducting oneself with virtue in a race. Epictetus didn't care much for the standings of a given event.

3:33He believed that the only competition that mattered began and continued long before the finish line or after the bell. If you want to be a winner, he said, define the competition only by things that are up to you. Both of these lyrics would have liked the lyric from the band Lucius.

4:03That's what life is. It's not a race against anyone else. The only thing to measure yourself against is yourself. There is no real finish line either. There is one foot in front of the other, one sprint, one slog after another. The marathon is getting up and going and not quitting and setting your own standards that you never quite reach and finding satisfaction and pride in the progress that you've made in the fact that you are better than you were yesterday. There is no race. There is only you. Just keep going. Keep going with virtue.

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5:34Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue. If you lay violent hands on me, you'll have my body, but my mind will remain with Stillpo. Happiness is a good flow of life. A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason and against nature. Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing. Man conquers the world by conquering himself. We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say. He is best of all men who follows good advice. Good too is he who finds out all things for himself. No loss should be more regrettable to us than losing our time, for it's irretrievable.

6:50Follow where reason leads. Steal your sensibilities so that life shall hurt you as little as possible. No evil is honorable, but death is honorable. Therefore, death is not evil. All the good are friends of one another. No one entrusts a secret to a drunken man, but one will entrust a secret to a good man. Therefore, the good man will not get drunk. All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature. The individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature. Seeing that the universe gives birth to beings that are animate and wise, should it not be considered animate and wise itself?

7:56The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature, or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature, as well as that of the universe. When a dog is tied to a cart, if it wants to follow, it is pulled and follows, making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity. But if the dog does not follow, it will be compelled in any case. So it is with men too. Even if they don't want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined. Fate is the endless chain of connection whereby things are the reason or principle by which the world goes on Man seems to be deficient in nothing so much as he is in time

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