Here's some context. Also, OP is a flageolet.
>>7637434
Post the paragraph before that, which includes "quit your books- no more hankering: this is not your gift."
Quit trying to illuminati the truth bro
>>7637443
I don't have it. Maybe you should post it?
>>7637463
You're trying to counter my argument when you don't even own the book?
UR shiprekt m8
>>7637434
>gratitude to the
>gods
?
Ahem... Exsqueeze me? I thought we were talking philosophy?
what did he mean by this?
>writes book to tell people to stop enjoying books
Stoics, not even once.
>>7638365
>doesn't know it was a private journal
/lit/, not even once
>>7638365
>Stoics
>tells people to stop worrying and getting worked up about anything external
>starts name calling and trash talking other contemporary philosophers who don't agree with them
>>7638373
There's more than Meditations out there champ, pleb champion.
>>7638378
You sound buttflustered.
>>7638365
It was never meant to be seen by the eyes of others. It was sort of like, *note to self*
>>7638384
yes Seneca's works are quite good too
> implying /lit/ reads new books instead of just rereading and memorizing a few classic texts
step the fuck up, stoics
>>7640850
any stoic writers from NOW?
>>7640850
what is this from?
>>7642458
That's the twelve year old Prince Alexander of Sayn-Wittgentstein-Sayn having a smoke with his older sister Yvonne.
tfw not a member a mediatised german noble family
why even read lit?
>>7638198
You have the burden of proof tho m8