Stoicism doesn't espouse inactivity or nihilistic humility, but it espouses emotionlessness and composure. "Suffer little - it says. "Fewer emotions, more actions, more meaningful movements. Active emotionlessness, do what you should and come what will".
The essence of stoicism is to reduce the amplitude of the swing of emotions. Less joy, less pain. The smaller one extreme, the smaller the opposite extreme.
The Stoics urged to accept all this, to where we are helpless otherwise, and you'll depression, sadness and suffering. Failure to accept the inevitable plunges a person into hell.
Anyone who does not retreat will reach the goal and we do not know those who could not. But those in whom there is no love will perish. Love is dream and hope, faith and perseverance, miracle and God.
It is not because it is difficult that we dare not, but because we dare not. Have you ever seen anyone try and fail? Everyone who couldn't, didn't try.
They say that in olden days all kind people asked themselves these three questions before saying something. And if they had even any slight doubts, they preferred not to say it.
Sport. Group or one-on-one training. Single combats or competitive games. Track and field sports. Constructive labor and masterhood. Philosophy, ethics and moral codes for being learned by heart. Foreign languages - for being studied every day for a long time. Mathematics and physics – for learning the essence of different processes. Native language and literature for writing essays and studying the list of books useful for reading. Various classes and hobby clubs. Some special classes for major subjects. Biology, chemistry etc. Gender-segregated education that considers psychological differences of boys and girls.
All knowledge should be background to remain forever. It's forbidden to study anything new without having got really in-depth knowledge of the studied matter or subject. It's rational to reject the track system and pay attention to personal classes system. Thus, a pupil should have a personal tutor who is supposed to know everything about him or her so that to make a plan of how to teach this pupil. Every tutor should also give recommendations and manage their pupils' time.
We teach stoicism taking into account the evolution of modern knowledge adapted to the current reality. In modern times, the philosophy of stoicism has evolved into concepts such as sanity and pragmatism, and has become a fundamental part of all major religions from Christianity and Islam to Taoism and Confucianism.
Christianity absorbed a mass of legends from previous religions, primarily from Zoroastrianism., They took the legend of the flood from ancient Shumers, they took the rest from the cult of Mitra (1st century B.C. There`s an opinion that the cult was invented in the ancient Rome after Zoroastrianism and Greek cults of God of the Sun - Helios. The cult was widespread in the Roman army). The Christian philosophy is based on platonism and stoicism.
Marcus Aurelius noticed that among animals one soul divided between people thinking one soul distributed. One from the devil, the other from God. Because first God created the devil, i.e. animals, and only then the mind, i.e. rights. And he ordered the animals, that is, the devil, to serve man, but the devil in his pride does not want.
We should be proud not of what we have been given by fate, but of what we have acquired by ourselves, by the power of our spirit, not the spirit of our parents and friends.
"First you must expose yourself, then you must correct yourself," Seneca said, but they expose themselves in the false, and even this false they do not correct, for a lie is nothing that does not exist.
Pleasure always ends by suffering, if the proportion is not observed. Pleasures of the rabble are shallow, empty and quick. Only the inner joy, strict and coming from the inside of itself is the value.
The contempt for casual too, better catch a useful coincidence, as the fish and roast it, or spread your network and transform the randomness in a pattern.
You suffer, only waiting for tomorrow's suffering. You enjoy only waiting for joy tomorrow. You're dumb, you want to prolong your joy and suffering, you can't get enough of their rapidity, you love them so much you are ready to enjoy them forever.