/lit/ - Literature

>>9363765
>Epictetus

It's a great manual for how to sleep well at night or how to ignore the fact that you're alive.
I don't get how anyone can take the stoics serioulsy after Nietzsche.

>>9330942
>what's the point in always being prepared for extreme poverty by living in extreme poverty all the time?
So to not be reliant on anything. The Oak and the Reed fable is very reminiscent of this. If you are living is near poverty, even though you are rich, you lose much less and can recover much quickly than a man who has a palace and loses everything.

Personally, I like to think you should train yourself so that if an emergency ever occurs, it would require the smallest possible sacrifice on your end for you to return to your egotistic life. If you are weak and someone is drowning, you can safely ignore their plight, but that is simply because you are weak physically. Train yourself so that any danger or altruistic moment is of no threat to your own life and live as you will without being bounded or reliant on others.

The story about a boy drinking from the lake with his own hands, as Diogenes throws his cup in rage that he has been outsmarted by a child is representative of this. Live for yourself by bound to as little as possible.

>>8957972
He didn't.

What do you think about my Nietzsche?