Dr. Arthur Brooks argues that virtue matters more than comfort, and that expecting the world to reward good behavior is a mistake. Stoicism teaches us to do the right thing even when it brings no recognition or benefit.
If you have to choose, choose virtue over comfort. Yeah just that you do the right thing. Marx realist says that the rest doesn't matter. And the idea of you control the choice that you make you don't necessarily control whether it's going to be well received. You don't control whether you're going to get a thank you. The idea of karma is beautiful. One of the things I think it does for people is it makes them think the universe and the world is fair and that this is an exchange of value. I'll be good so you'll be good to me. I'll do the right thing. You do the right thing. I work hard, I'll get ahead. I think the Stoics lived in a much more capricious world, a much crueler world and so they understood that you could be a good person and it might not work out for you in one sense but in the other sense it was the only way to be.
