My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
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