836. Pity vs envy

from Stoic Meditations · host Massimo Pigliucci

Cicero makes an argument that the ideal Stoic, the sage, should feel neither envy nor pity. He was spectacularly wrong, and directly contradicted by Marcus Aurelius. Let's see why.

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