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You see, Stoicism -and philosophy-are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful, and the men and women of action. As Thoreau put it: "To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school...it is to solve some of the problems of life not only theoretically, but practically."
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Indeed, Teddy seems to represent the temperance and self control of the philosophy beautifully when he said, "What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice". Likewise he expressed the necessity of action advocated by the Stoics when he f...
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