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one of my favorite things from reading Nietzsche is that he considered Stoic's to be kill-joy's :)

And as much as I like reading "Meditations" when I get too immersed in self-critic and self-control I remember Nietzsche and feel much better again.

https://medium.com/@tomic.edward/nietzsches-devastating-crit...

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Seriously, if stoicism is so good for mental health why did so many of them suicide? And why was Marcus Aurelius specifically such a poor father? Seems like a bad track record to me. I'd rather party with the Nietzscheans.

Different cultures at different times viewed suicide differently under different situations.

Suicide is not necessarily a result of a mental problem.

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