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Cognitive behavioral therapy (n.) is something you do for a few months and then set aside; Stoicism asks to be a whole way of life.
Cognitive distancing (n.) is the knack of telling your thoughts apart from the reality they claim to describe.
Death (n.) is a prankster in a scary mask; the wise man lifts the mask and finds nothing behind it worth fearing.
Death (n.) is not one event but many: the child dies into the heir, the heir into the emperor — from birth we are dying a day at a time.
Death (n.) is among the most certain things in life, and so should be among the least feared.
Death (n.) should come like a ripe olive falling from its branch — thanking the tree that gave it life and the earth that receives it.
Dying (n.) is a skill that unlearns slavery: whoever has rehearsed his own death can no longer be made a slave.
Fear of death (n.) often rushes a man straight into death's arms: those most desperate to flee it tend to meet it first.
Feeling (n.) is the one thing neither philosophy nor empire can take from a man.
Good (n.) may not be many things scattered through the world but one thing only — and inside us rather than out.
Grief (n.) the wise man still feels; he only stops adding to it by complaining and shaking his fist at the universe.
Immortality (n.) makes no more sense to wish for than a body as hard as diamond or the wings of a bird.
Life (n.) can no more be held on to than the water of a rushing stream.