Category Archives: Ataraxia

Happy Birthday, Sadé!

Posted on January 16, 2018 by

Helen Fọláṣadé Adú (aka Sadé, shah-DAY), the head singer of the British band by the same name, was born on the 16th of January of 1959. I’m posting this blog in celebration of her remarkable musical career and legacy, which now … Continue reading →

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PD 39, Eumetry and the Art of Epicurean Diplomacy

Posted on December 10, 2017 by

The man who best knows how to meet external threats makes into one family all the creatures he can; and those he can not, he at any rate does not treat as aliens; and where he finds even this impossible, … Continue reading →

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Horace: Dare to be Wise

Posted on June 15, 2017 by

If you don’t set your mind on honest aims and pursuits, On waking, you’ll be tortured by envy or lust. Why so quick to remove a speck from your eye, when If it’s your mind, you put off the cure … Continue reading →

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“I Call You to Constant Pleasures!” – Epicurus

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Diogenes’ Wall: on Old Age

Posted on April 13, 2017 by

We should not view the young man as happy, but rather the old man whose life has been fortunate. The young man at the height of his powers is often befuddled by chance and driven from his course; but the … Continue reading →

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Diogenes’ Wall: on the Pleasures

Posted on March 25, 2017 by

In the coming weeks, The Autarkist will be covering in detail some gleanings from Diogenes’ Wall Inscription. Diogenes of Oenoanda was a wealthy Epicurean from the Second Century of Common Era who lived in what is today the south of Turkey. He erected the … Continue reading →

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On the Virtue of Coolness

Posted on March 15, 2017 by

Coolness is the proper way you represent yourself to a human being. – Robert Farris Thompson A happy life is like neither to a roaring torrent, nor a stagnant pool, but to a placid and crystal stream that flows gently … Continue reading →

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