If not now, when? –
TODAY – Even bad situations. Even painful or scary ones. If we act virtuously, they believed, everything else important could follow: Happiness, success, meaning, reputation, honor, love. “The man who has virtue,” Cicero said, “is in need of nothing whatever for the purpose of living well.”
Ok, but what is virtue? The Stoics believed there were four virtues: Wisdom, Courage, Temperance, Justice…
