![]() ![]() Sign up today for the Daily Stoic’s email and get our popular free 7-day course on Stoicism. This was originally sent on November 11, 2020. If you can greet anything and everything that life throws at you, if you can be brave and calm and collected and disciplined no matter what happens, then you are a Stoic. Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch, ![]() If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue , What matters is the character we live by. A rock thrown in the air gains nothing by going up, he said, and nothing by falling down. Remember that Marcus Aurelius commanded himself to “Accept it without arrogance and let it go with indifference.” Like Kipling, he saw success and failure as meaningless-as imposters. What does the word triumph and disaster mean Explanation: By triumph, the poet means moments of success and accomplishment in life, while by disaster, he implies the time of failure or loss. If you can dream and not make dreams your master, If you can think and not make thoughts your aim If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And. If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterĪnd treat those two impostors just the same Rudyard Kipling Quote: If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same. And treat those two imposters just the same If you can bear. The question is how we’re going to respond to these swings of fate, if we can follow the lines of Kipling’s classic poem, “If-” : If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim If you can meet with triumph and disaster. We will have, as Seneca experiences, moments of heartbreak and bad luck as well as strokes of good fortune and good timing. ![]()
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