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📖 Seneca’s Of Providence (de providentia) (天意）

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Of_Providence

  • Misfortunes are not punishments but rather divine trials designed to strengthen good people, enhancing their virtue and making them more akin to gods.
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why good people face misfortunes:
  • How to endure misfortune
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    Embrace misfortune as a divine tests and trainings
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    Meet adversity with courage
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    Understand that poverty, pain, or death are external circumstances and cannot touch the virtuous mind
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    Be prepared
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    Willingly accept fate and universal law

Related:

  • 😡📖 Seneca’s Of Anger (de ira)
  • 🧘🏽📖 Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations