Emerson on Stoicism

Marcus Aurelius and American Transcendentalism

Apr 21, 2020

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Let a Stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear… and that teacher shall restore the life of man to splendor, and make his name dear to all history. — Emerson, Self-Reliance

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