The corpus is awake
The Library of Arete

A living library you can wander, read, and argue with.

Stoic at its heart, open to the wider tradition. Every primary text here to be read in full.

— Wander the halls —
the corpus murmurs
It is not things that disturb us, but our judgments about things. — EpictetusIf you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it. — Marcus AureliusWe suffer more often in imagination than in reality. — SenecaWaste no more time arguing what a good person should be. Be one. — Marcus AureliusNo one is free who is not master of themselves. — EpictetusEvery day should be regulated as if it were the one that rounds out and completes our lives. — SenecaIt is not things that disturb us, but our judgments about things. — EpictetusIf you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it. — Marcus AureliusWe suffer more often in imagination than in reality. — SenecaWaste no more time arguing what a good person should be. Be one. — Marcus AureliusNo one is free who is not master of themselves. — EpictetusEvery day should be regulated as if it were the one that rounds out and completes our lives. — Seneca