Stoic Meditations

836. Pity vs envy

Apr 19, 2021 · 2 min · 2.8 MB
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Cicero makes an argument that the ideal Stoic, the sage, should feel neither envy nor pity. He was spectacularly wrong, and directly contradicted by Marcus Aurelius. Let's see why.