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Stoicism | Overcoming the Fear of Death & Cultivating Courage and Freedom

July 31, 2022

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Art Used in this Video

Caspar David Friedrich - Frau am Fenster - Google Art Project

Jean-Pierre Beckius, Lärensmillen, la fiancée de l'artiste (vers 1932)

Ernst Platz - Memento mori, c. 1894

Death-and-the-woodcutter-jean-francois-millet3

Erik Werenskiold - Peasant Burial - Google Art Project

Dutch 17th Century, Memento Mori, c. 1680, NGA 169116

Ascension by Madox Brown

Frans Francken II (1581-1642) - An Allegory of Death and the Rich Man - 959419 - National Trust

Abraham Janssens - Heraclitus

Edouard Hamman - Disillusion - WGA11202

The Disillusioned One LACMA M.78.63

Montaigne vers 1590 - François Quesnel

Zichy,Mihaly - Az emberi tehetetlenseg

Michelangelo Caravaggio 056

Merian memento mori

Ignacio de Ries El Arbol de la Vida

Death Comes to the Banquet Table - Memento Mori - Martinelli NOMA

Akseli Gallen-Kallela - Problem (Symposium)

Caspar David Friedrich - Landscape with Grave, Coffin and Owl - WGA08302

Kārlis Padegs - Red Laughter - Google Art Project

Jan Lievens - old man with a skull 1620s

Giovanni Paolo Panini - View of the Roman Forum - Walters 372366

Henryk Siemiradzki 004

Joseph Coomans - Roman banquet

Bidloo Ontleding 1690 87

Baron François Gérard - Marius Returning to Rome - 91.39 - Museum of Fine Arts

J. W. Waterhouse - The favourites of the Emperor Honorius - Google Art ProjectFXD

David - The Death of Socrates

Karl von Piloty Nero Róma égését szemléli

Socrates in Thomas Stanley History of Philosophy

Socrates Address by Belgian artist Louis Joseph Lebrun, 1867

William Rainey, Alexander and Diogenes

Monsiau - Alexandre et Diogène

Bust of Pseudo-Seneca MET DP359039

Jan Styka - Nero at Baiae

Sylvestre La Mort de Seneque 1875

Peter Paul Rubens - The Dying Seneca

Life and death. Oil painting. Wellcome V0017612

Francesco di Stefano - Allegory of Rome

Arnold Boecklin-fiedelnder Tod

Self-portrait with Love and Death by Hans Thoma

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