I think the Stoic fatalism and bracing yourself against fortune

>>8191506
Yes. I was gonna add "be prepared to be ridiculed though" but then I realized.

it's always been a porchmonkey philosophy since the inception, but the moralfaggotry got more pronounced when the romans took it over because they were looking for a way to be a fascist empire. that's why you find seneca saying shit like "virtue's all you really need" when all that does is protect the state from the vagaries of man, not man from the vagaries of fate.

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For my part I consider that it is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her; and it is seen that she allows herself to be mastered by the adventurous rather than by those who go to work more coldly. She is, therefore, always, woman-like, a lover of young men, because they are less cautious, more violent, and with more audacity command her.

>>8191530
>it's always been a porchmonkey philosophy since the inception
what did you mean by this?

>>8191592
i was making an awful greek pun. stoa means "porch" in greek. zeno used preach from the "painted porch" (stoa poikile) and stoicism as a movement takes its name from this.
there're other famous porches, but stoicism refers to philosophers under that specific one in the athenian agora for its name.

>>8191530
basically correct

>>8191530
truuuuuuuuu

>>8191506
>moralfaggotry

As if being principled was something to disparage. You idiots are all alike. Stoicism has its roots in ethical conduct, moral behavior. Virtue ultimately, is inseparable from the stoic approach to life. Because among the many things virtue is, it is self-control. Temperance is integral to stoicism, subhuman.

>>8191728
>duty to the state never comes into it, it's just our interests aligned >.>
lol i thought all nero's shills were dead

>>8191738
Your post was cute and all, but I never once mentioned the State in mine, moron.

>>8191756
Then apparently us idiots aren't all alike. Idiotes is the greek word for those who don't participate in the function of the democratic state; those who "have no public business", in the words of Pericles :3

>>8191692
feel ashamed for not catching that desu