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How To Take Revenge As A Stoic

How To Take Revenge As A Stoic

Wednesday Wisdom #122

Stoic Reflections
Aug 16, 2023
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Happy Wednesday, friends!

Last week, we wrote about How Everything Has a Cost.
 

This week: How To Take Revenge As A Stoic

Let's get to it 👇


Weekly Reflection

Revenge. We've all felt its pull. When someone deliberately does something that irritates you or makes you angry, the instinctual response to hit them back even harder and show them whose boss.

As tempting as it may be to respond in that manner, the Stoics advise us to take a different approach. According to Marcus Aurelius, 

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