Which one of you assholes did this? I said "How does it help to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?" You can't just say "make troubles heavier"! You're misquoting me, vlaka!
Make
Troubles
Heavier.
Everyone is a stoic until they suffer through a group chat
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We are often more frightened than angry. We suffer more in imagination than we do in the group chat.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Nero just said, “I'm not mad, I'm merely practicing apatheia in an elevated way.” Does anyone even listen to this guy?
morning, kings. quick vibe check. court was chaos. i am once again asking for mutual serenity
Sending love. Also, reminder: "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." — Seneca (me). So like, breathe?
incredible support as always
sorry, wasn't done: "It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it." so maybe stop doomscrolling the senate?
noted. also, totally random: who added nero to close friends??
Topic changed to "No Discourse About Nero Until Coffee" by Big_Seneca
lmao
ok but seneca is doing that thing again—performing calm while being a menace
"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." — Epictetus
i hate when you cite you
then embody it 😂
btw don't tell him i said that
Mini Bios, Maximum Petty
Journaling app power user. apologizes in paragraph form.
Posts three-slide carousels about boundaries, then texts at 2:03am "u up?"
Will end your TED Talk with one sentence and a shrug.
Ghost follower; when he comments, you log off.
I commissioned a statue of me so they remember what I looked like for all of history.
Does it actually look like you, or did you tell them to make you look yoked, because you haven't thought your way out of an ego yet?
ok updated plan for my entire life: breathe, remember i'm dust, send nice emails
"It is not death that a man should fear, but never beginning to live." — Marcus (your words again, sorry they slap)
bro
"If someone can show me that what I think or do is not right, I will gladly change." — Marcus Aurelius
So change?
stunned by the brevity violence
Don't be mad.
if seneca quotes myself at me again i'm going to compose three tragedies
You could log off.
wow brutal. anyway, i'm fine. just need him to stop feeling feelings at me
Feelings are data. You say you love data.
whoa. ok. noted. will channel into a newsletter
ok real talk everyone seems a little...tense
maybe because everyone keeps getting dunked on by their own quotes
we need like a safe word for when someone is quoting us at ourselves
Virtue.
that's like...our whole thing though
exactly
ok but like can we pick literally any other word
Safe word updated to "pineapple"
Pretty sure Seneca broke all 5 of these, just this week. Is he being serious?
Seneca's Rules for Inner Peace:
1. Don't thirst-post.
2. Don't clap back after sunset.
3. Don't monetize an apology.
4. Don't quote yourself in the third person.
5. Do not, under any circumstances, add Nero to Close Friends again.
yeah that sounds about right
"Choose not to be harmed — and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed — and you haven't been." - Marcus Aurelius
New topic suggestion: "Practice privately. Post less. Touch grass."
your philosophy.
Embody it.
