/lit/ - Literature

>>18956153
>If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Pic related.
Plus he was an opium addict. You have to imagine him articulating the trite banality above as he was nodding off on opium that his slaves had grown, harvested, cured, brought to him and prepared.
Aurelius is a favorite among pseuds because his status of a classical author and Roman emperor gives a veneer of gravitas to the absolute banalities he writes about, which are easy for the pseud to understand.
I am willing to wager that 90% of people who read Aurelius today discovered him either through le epic genius Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs or some reading list on a blog about masculinity.

>>17197965

Books that explain how utilitarianism isn't the most cucked moral philosophy?

>Do to others as you would have them do to you.
But what if the people surrounding me don't abide by this principle? Did I just find a contradiction...?

Is this the definitive argument to why everyone should be utilitarians?

>Bro we need to make every person the happiest we can. This is objective, not at all something that makes ME happy and not most people (who dont agree with utilitarianism).
Was John Stuart Mill the first cuck? He was a feminist and pro niglets. I cant decide to post a brainlet or a cuck.

What does /lit/ think of stoicism?

>>10300186
It's your lucky day!