What is divine deserves our respect because it is good what is human deserves our affection because it is like us.But the man motivated by desire, who is mastered by pleasure, seems somehow more self-indulgent, less manly in his sins.*Throw away your books stop letting yourself be distracted.The discipline of will governs our attitude to things that are not within our control Action governs our approach to the things in our control. The third discipline of will is in a sense the counterpart to the second, the discipline of action.In our relationship with others we must work for their collective good, while treating them justly and fairly as possible. We were made, Marcus tells us over and over, not for ourselves but for others, and our nature is fundamentally unselfish. This requires not merely passive acquiescence in what happens, but active cooperation with the world, with fate and, above all, with other human beings.Human beings, for Marcus and the Stoics, are social animals.The discipline of action relates to our relationship with other people.
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