/lit/ - Literature

Anybody got any stoic inforgraphics or reading lists?

anyone have some recommendations for stoicism?

Who are the philosophers that one should read to literally improve their life? In what way do they improve it?

Even if his philosophy doesn't strike you, it's such an amazing and unique window into the deepest thoughts of one of the most unique people ever to live, I'm sure you will enjoy it.

Where do I start with stoicism?

Also, to make this thread more /lit/ than /his/, are there any authors that reconcile the two?

Well, what say you, /lit/?

Post some great aphorisms and wisdom that you've come across.

Here's two from Marcus Aurelius:

>"Choose not to be harmed — and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed — and you haven't been."

>“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”

Critique thread? All types of literature is welcome.

Do not critique something just because you want yours to be critiqued, critique it if you genuinely have something constructive to add.

Here is my short story.
http://pastebin.com/gds3CyKB

Is there a philosophical argument against masturbation?

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>be as the snow falling off the bamboo leaf
Isn't the saying that we're the leaf and the snow is emotions? Or are you saying we should follow our emotions like hedonists?
>"Take away thy opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, "I have been harmed." Take away the complaint, "I have been harmed," and the harm is taken away.""
>"Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it."
>"No joining others in their wailing, no violent emotion."
One of my favorites:
>"Theophrastus, in his comparison of bad acts- such a comparison as one would make in accordance with the common notions of mankind- says, like a true philosopher, that the offences which are committed through desire are more blameable than those which are committed through anger. For he who is excited by anger seems to turn away from reason with a certain pain and unconscious contraction; but he who offends through desire, being overpowered by pleasure, seems to be in a manner more intemperate and more womanish in his offences. Rightly then, and in a way worthy of philosophy, he said that the offence which is committed with pleasure is more blameable than that which is committed with pain; and on the whole the one is more like a person who has been first wronged and through pain is compelled to be angry; but the other is moved by his own impulse to do wrong, being carried towards doing something by desire."