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Stoics belittle physical harm, but this is not braggadocio,” James Stockdale wrote. “They are speaking of it in comparison to the devastating agony of shame they fancied good men generating when they knew in their hearts that they had failed to do their duty vis-à-vis their fellow men or God.
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Ryan Holiday (Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave (The Stoic Virtues Series))