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The Art of living (n.) works one material only — each person's own life — as the carpenter works wood and the sculptor bronze.
A Book (n.) is a map pointing where we want to go; the traveller who only pores over maps and never sets out has failed as a traveller.
The Commentary (n.) is what Stoicism stopped writing: taught by Epictetus to scorn textual study, a generation or two let the school's books vanish.
Consolation (n.) offered to others proves nothing; only the consolation you give yourself shows your true character.
Convention (n.) is merely arbitrary; only what accords with nature is necessary — so get food, water and shelter, and ignore the local rules.
Emotion (n.) is not reason's opposite but its mistake: the Stoics read violent feeling as an error in reasoning.
Happiness (n.) built only on what is up to us can never be taken away; it becomes literally invulnerable.
Life (n.) is a war and a stay in a foreign land, and after it comes oblivion.
Misery (n.) is almost always a mistake about territory: resting your happiness on things that are not up to you.
An Opponent (n.) can be a school's best archivist: Chrysippus survives mostly in quotations by Plutarch and Galen, who copied him out to attack him.