Life’s a Festival
A Stoic practice on dealing with people
…When you’re alone you should call this condition tranquility and freedom, and think of yourself like the gods; and when you are with many, you shouldn’t call it a crowd, or trouble, or uneasiness, but festival and company, and contentedly accept it. — Epictetus, The Discourses; Book 1, Chapter 12.
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