#cleanthes

[apollophanes]

"Even the unloved is loved by you."

— Cleanthes' Hymn to Zeus

[loveandthepsyche]

The Fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them.

~ Cleanthes

[the-stoic-goat]

[disneystheweekenders]

The Weekenders 20th Anniversary Celebration Week: Characters – Tish Katsufrakis She is the artsy, intellectual member of the group, skipping from one obsession/aspiration to the next (dancer, poet, art historian) with inspired, yet alarming rapidity. “Tish is genuinely smart and well-read, but a little detached from reality at times. She forgets that not everyone has read ‘Beowulf’ or knows what ‘mise-en-scene’ means. Tish’s focus is very cerebral, which diminishes her physical coordination at times – she might bump into a lamppost because she’s concentrating on her ‘Complete Works of Shakespeare’ rather than where she’s going.” – Doug Langdale (The Weekenders Creator)

[motivate--urself]

Cleanthes, one of the earliest Stoics, had no great fortune. Instead, he worked nearly all his life with a series of humble jobs. He carried water for people’s gardens. He crushed grain. He was a laborer—by choice. When a wealthy king offered him enough money to cease these labors, he refused, so as not to be corrupted. Every dollar Cleanthes earned—even if it wasn’t many of them—was honestly made. Not one of them was stained with blood or tainted by injustice. And isn’t this a much more impressive fortune? It’s not the quantity that we should care about. Something earnestly made and sold for a fair price, whether it’s millions of units or a few dozen: that’s honorable. Something earned with real effort: that’s honorable, whether it’s earned by sweeping floors or managing a company. The philosopher Nassim Taleb has joked that a person possesses true wealth when the money they turn down is sweeter than the money they accept. An honest dollar is the only kind of dollar worth chasing… or collecting. If only more Stoics had lived by this, or had been strong enough too. If only more of us could find the strength to do this today. How much more impressive we would all be.

Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic

[buendischerwaldgang]

The fate leads the willing and drags the unwilling.

Cleanthes

[ancientbeardart]

The stoic philosopher Cleanthes, 333-231 BCE?

Roman copy ca. 100 CE after a Greek original of the 3rd c. BCE

Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek

(via ancientrome.ru; photos by S. Sosnovskiy)

Cleanthes was the second head of the Stoic school of Athens, following Zeno of Citium. 

[the-stoic-goat]