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The most Stoic way to console someone is to simply offer: I am here for any living you still want to do. To be present for life aſter loss. To listen without flinching. To stand with them in quiet dignity until they are ready to move again.

We do not practice Stoicism to escape life’s pain, but to face it with dignity. The world may be chaotic. But the mind, well-trained, need not be.

Temperance brings us back to ourselves, and helps us stay in harmony with who we are, even when life tries to knock us off rhythm.

(Justice is) something you practice–in the way you speak, in the way you decide, and in the way you see others.

Despite external losses, Stoic wisdom urged me to keep a “sturdy mind.” I could defend against bitterness by holding to reason instead of turmoil.

The most enduring courage is not the kind that seeks a spotlight but the kind that endures without applause, guided by principle and steadied by wisdom.