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stoic
hedonist

A curated life — where discipline meets delight, and ease is the reward of mastery.

Anno
MMXXVI
Base
München · 48° N
Disposition
Composed
Tenets
Three pillars
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Today
Disposition
Composed
Reading
Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows
By Way Of
Introduction
"
With relentless effort,
audacious optimism
turns improbabilities
into realities.
— Verbatim · GUGG
G SPREZZATURA
— A note on the maker

A small private file,
quietly maintained.

This is not an account of work. It is a record of orientation — what is read, where one returns, what is held when most things are not.

A page kept the way one keeps a desk: with affection, with restraint, and with the certainty that the form of a life is itself a kind of argument.

— The three pillars

Time-tested principles
made personal.

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Discipline is the
highest form of
self-respect.
— On the inner code
— Hours observed
MUNICH
48.13° N · 11.58° E
ZURICH
47.37° N · 8.54° E
DUBAI
25.27° N · 55.30° E
— A field of figures

Quiet emblems,
by which to navigate.

— Selected readings

The shelf, in part —
quiet companions.

i.
Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
Returned to annually. The emperor's private notes — a manual on facing the day with composure.
ii.
Baldassare Castiglione
Il Cortegiano
Where the word sprezzatura first appears. Effortlessness as the highest art.
iii.
Epicurus
Letter to Menoeceus
Pleasure rightly understood — not excess, but the absence of disturbance.
iv.
Junichirō Tanizaki
In Praise of Shadows
A meditation on aesthetics — what is gained by leaving things half-lit, half-said.