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Sharon Lebell

Lessons in Stoic Virtue from Ukraine

Amidst Putin’s war on Ukraine, the author contemplates Stoic virtue in adversity. President Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian people embody courage, temperance, justice, and wisdom, demonstrating resilience and leadership. Rejecting revenge, they stand for ethical clarity. Their example offers a prescriptive guide to navigate challenges with Stoic ideals.

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Sharon Lebell August 17, 2023
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
– CICERO
"If the way is not seeking always better ways, it is not the way."
– ROCCO JARMAN
"Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars."
- EPICTETUS
"What is linear is not history but the human spirit."
– PROF. JOE SIRACUSA
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
– ALBERT CAMUS
"Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day."
– C.G. JUNG
"If I had not been admitted to these studies it would not have been worth while to have been born."
- Seneca
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Beauty is always worth it."
- Sharon Lebell
"It is no measure of good health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
"The Soul that would be touched by beauty must sometimes walk alone."
- Goethe
"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in moving towards what will be."
- Kahlil Gibran
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