A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.

The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

Make sure that you are in a situation where the constant mistakes are small and can be used for something.

Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile.

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.