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26 Jan, 18:23

“How does your ruling reason manage itself? For in that is the key to everything. Whatever else remains, be it in the power of your choice or not, is but a corpse and smoke.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 12.33

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25 Jan, 18:24

“. . . freedom isn’t secured by filling up on your heart’s desire but by removing your desire.”

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.1.175

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24 Jan, 18:21

“Eat like a human being, drink like a human being, dress up, marry, have children, get politically active—suffer abuse, bear with a headstrong brother, father, son, neighbor, or companion. Show us these things so we can see that you truly have learned from the philosophers.”

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.21.5–6

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23 Jan, 18:19

“The diseases of the rational soul are long-standing and hardened vices, such as greed and ambition—they have put the soul in a straitjacket and have begun to be permanent evils inside it. To put it briefly, this sickness is an unrelenting distortion of judgment, so things that are only mildly desirable are vigorously sought after.”

—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 75.11

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22 Jan, 18:16

“What is it then to be properly educated? It is learning to apply our natural preconceptions to the right things according to Nature, and beyond that to separate the things that lie within our power from those that don’t.”

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 1.22.9–10a

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21 Jan, 18:21

“I may wish to be free from torture, but if the time comes for me to endure it, I’ll wish to bear it courageously with bravery and honor. Wouldn’t I prefer not to fall into war? But if war does befall me, I’ll wish to carry nobly the wounds, starvation, and other necessities of war. Neither am I so crazy as to desire illness, but if I must suffer illness, I’ll wish to do nothing rash or dishonorable. The point is not to wish for these adversities, but for the virtue that makes adversities bearable.”

—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 67.4

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20 Jan, 18:23

“For there are two rules to keep at the ready—that there is nothing good or bad outside my own reasoned choice, and that we shouldn’t try to lead events but to follow them.”

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.10.18

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19 Jan, 18:17

“Today I escaped from the crush of circumstances, or better put, I threw them out, for the crush wasn’t from outside me but in my own assumptions.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 9.13

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18 Jan, 18:18

“You are not your body and hair-style, but your capacity for choosing well. If your choices are beautiful, so too will you be.”

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.1.39b–40a

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17 Jan, 15:47

“Hold sacred your capacity for understanding. For in it is all, that our ruling principle won’t allow anything to enter that is either inconsistent with nature or with the constitution of a logical creature. It’s what demands due diligence, care for others, and obedience to God.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 3.9

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16 Jan, 18:05

“Were you to live three thousand years, or even a countless multiple of that, keep in mind that no one ever loses a life other than the one they are living, and no one ever lives a life other than the one they are losing. The longest and the shortest life, then, amount to the same, for the present moment lasts the same for all and is all anyone possesses. No one can lose either the past or the future, for how can someone be deprived of what’s not theirs?”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 2.14

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16 Jan, 04:07

“Zeno would also say that nothing is more hostile to a firm grasp on knowledge than self-deception.”

—DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS, 7.23

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15 Jan, 14:32

“It isn’t events themselves that disturb people, but only their judgments about them.”

—EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 5

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14 Jan, 18:18

“Whenever you find yourself blaming providence, turn it around in your mind and you will see that what has happened is in keeping with reason.”

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.17.1

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14 Jan, 05:46

“Throw out your conceited opinions, for it is impossible for a person to begin to learn what he thinks he already knows.”

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.17.1

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13 Jan, 18:20

“The unrestricted person, who has in hand what they will in all events, is free. But anyone who can be restricted, coerced, or pushed into something against what they will is a slave.”

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.1.128b–129a

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13 Jan, 03:42

“If a person gave away your body to some passerby, you’d be furious. Yet you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along, so they may abuse you, leaving it disturbed and troubled— have you no shame in that?”

—EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 28

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11 Jan, 18:08

“In public avoid talking often and excessively about your accomplishments and dangers, for however much you enjoy recounting your dangers, it’s not so pleasant for others to hear about your affairs.”

—EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 33.14

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10 Jan, 18:12

“Above all, it is necessary for a person to have a true self-estimate, for we commonly think we can do more than we really can.”

—SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND, 5.2

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09 Jan, 18:14

“When children stick their hand down a narrow goody jar they can’t get their full fist out and start crying. Drop a few treats and you will get it out! Curb your desire—don’t set your heart on so many things and you will get what you need.”

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.9.22

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08 Jan, 17:27

“Of all the things that are, some are good, others bad, and yet others indifferent. The good are virtues and all that share in them; the bad are the vices and all that indulge them; the indifferent lie in between virtue and vice and include wealth, health, life, death, pleasure, and pain.”

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.19.12b–13

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01 Jan, 17:55

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."

- Marcus Aurelius

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01 Jan, 08:34

Happy New Year! In 2025, let us embrace each moment with calm, courage, and the wisdom to endure and grow.

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31 Dec, 17:57

“Keep constant guard over your perceptions, for it is no small thing you are protecting, but your respect, trustworthiness and steadiness, peace of mind, freedom from pain and fear, in a word your freedom. For what would you sell these things?”

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.3.6b–8

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30 Dec, 17:49

“Our soul is sometimes a king, and sometimes a tyrant. A king, by attending to what is honorable, protects the good health of the body in its care, and gives it no base or sordid command. But an uncontrolled, desire-fueled, over-indulged soul is turned from a king into that most feared and detested thing—a tyrant.”

—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 114.24

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29 Dec, 17:48

“There is no more stupefying thing than anger, nothing more bent on its own strength. If successful, none more arrogant, if foiled, none more insane—since it’s not driven back by weariness even in defeat, when fortune removes its adversary it turns its teeth on itself.”

—SENECA, ON ANGER, 3.1.5

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28 Dec, 17:47

We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing and to not let it upset our state of mind—for things have no natural power to shape our judgments.

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.52

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27 Dec, 17:47

“You cry, I’m suffering severe pain! Are you then relieved from feeling it, if you bear it in an unmanly way?”

—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 78.17

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26 Dec, 17:47

“Many are harmed by fear itself, and many may have come to their fate while dreading fate.”

—SENECA, OEDIPUS, 992

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25 Dec, 17:47

“I don’t agree with those who plunge headlong into the middle of the flood and who, accepting a turbulent life, struggle daily in great spirit with difficult circumstances. The wise person will endure that, but won’t choose it—choosing to be at peace, rather than at war.”

—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 28.7

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24 Dec, 17:48

“Don’t be bounced around, but submit every impulse to the claims of justice, and protect your clear conviction in every appearance.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 4.22

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23 Dec, 17:47

“Who then is invincible? The one who cannot be upset by anything outside their reasoned choice.”

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 1.18.21

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22 Dec, 17:44

“When I see an anxious person, I ask myself, what do they want? For if a person wasn’t wanting something outside of their own control, why would they be stricken by anxiety?”

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.13.1

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21 Dec, 17:44

“Frame your thoughts like this—you are an old person, you won’t let yourself be enslaved by this any longer, no longer pulled like a puppet by every impulse, and you’ll stop complaining about your present fortune or dreading the future.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 2.2

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20 Dec, 16:22

“Don’t return to philosophy as a task-master, but as patients seek out relief in a treatment of sore eyes, or a dressing for a burn, or from an ointment. Regarding it this way, you’ll obey reason without putting it on display and rest easy in its care.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.9

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19 Dec, 17:42

“If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters—don’t wish to seem knowledgeable. And if some regard you as important, distrust yourself.”

—EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 13a

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18 Dec, 17:42

“Take a good hard look at people’s ruling principle, especially of the wise, what they run away from and what they seek out.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 4.38

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17 Dec, 17:42

“Erase the false impressions from your mind by constantly saying to yourself, I have it in my soul to keep out any evil, desire or any kind of disturbance—instead, seeing the true nature of things, I will give them only their due. Always remember this power that nature gave you.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.29

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16 Dec, 17:42

“I will keep constant watch over myself and—most usefully—will put each day up for review. For this is what makes us evil—that none of us looks back upon our own lives. We reflect upon only that which we are about to do. And yet our plans for the future descend from the past.”

—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 83.2

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15 Dec, 16:51

“Your principles can’t be extinguished unless you snuff out the thoughts that feed them, for it’s continually in your power to reignite new ones. . . . It’s possible to start living again! See things anew as you once did—that is how to restart life!”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.2

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14 Dec, 17:39

“A podium and a prison is each a place, one high and the other low, but in either place your freedom of choice can be maintained if you so wish.”

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.6.25

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13 Dec, 17:39

“Pass through this brief patch of time in harmony with nature, and come to your final resting place gracefully, just as a ripened olive might drop, praising the earth that nourished it and grateful to the tree that gave it growth.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 4.48.2

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12 Dec, 17:38

“Understand at last that you have something in you more powerful and divine than what causes the bodily passions and pulls you like a mere puppet. What thoughts now occupy my mind? Is it not fear, suspicion, desire, or something like that?”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 12.19

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01 Dec, 17:29

“To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.”

—SENECA, HERCULES OETAEUS, 231–232

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30 Nov, 17:28

In all things we should try to make ourselves be as grateful as possible. For gratitude is a good thing for ourselves, in a manner in which justice, commonly held to belong to others, is not. Gratitude pays itself back in large measure.”

—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 81.19

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29 Nov, 17:28

“Everything lasts for a day, the one who remembers and the remembered.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 4.35

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28 Nov, 17:27

“It’s a disgrace in this life when the soul surrenders first while the body refuses to.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.29

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27 Nov, 17:27

“You know what wine and liqueur tastes like. It makes no difference whether a hundred or a thousand bottles pass through your bladder—you are nothing more than a filter.”

—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 77.16

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26 Nov, 17:27

“You are afraid of dying. But, come now, how is this life of yours anything but death?”

—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 77.18

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25 Nov, 17:26

“Many times an old man has no other evidence besides his age to prove he has lived a long time.”

—SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND, 3.8b

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24 Nov, 17:26

“Do you then ponder how the supreme of human evils, the surest mark of the base and cowardly, is not death, but the fear of death? I urge you to discipline yourself against such fear, direct all your thinking, exercises, and reading this way—and you will know the only path to human freedom.”

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.26.38–39

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23 Nov, 17:24

“Think of the whole universe of matter and how small your share. Think about the expanse of time and how brief—almost momentary—the part marked for you. Think of the workings of fate and how infinitesimal your role.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.24

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22 Nov, 17:24

“Both Alexander the Great and his mule-keeper were both brought to the same place by death— they were either received into the all-generative reason, or scattered among the atoms.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.24

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21 Nov, 17:23

“I tell you, you only have to learn to live like the healthy person does . . . living with complete confidence. What confidence? The only one worth holding, in what is trustworthy, unhindered, and can’t be taken away—your own reasoned choice.”

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.26.23b–24

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20 Nov, 17:23

“This is the mark of perfection of character—to spend each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, laziness, or any pretending.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.69

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19 Nov, 17:12

Soon you will die,

and still you aren’t sincere, undisturbed,

or free from suspicion that external things can harm you,

nor are you gracious to all,

knowing that wisdom and acting justly

are one and the same

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 4.37

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18 Nov, 17:09

You aren’t bothered, are you, because you weigh a certain amount and not twice as much?

So why get worked up that you’ve been given a certain lifespan and not more?

Just as you are satisfied with your normal weight, so you should be with the time you’ve been given.

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.49

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17 Nov, 17:07

“As Cicero says, we hate gladiators if they are quick to save their lives by any means; we favor them if they show contempt for their lives.”

—SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND, 11.4b

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16 Nov, 17:07

“It’s better to conquer grief than to deceive it.”

—SENECA, ON CONSOLATION TO HELVIA, 17.1b

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15 Nov, 17:07

“Think of the life you have lived until now as over and, as a dead man, see what’s left as a bonus and live it according to Nature. Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what could be more fitting?”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.56–57

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14 Nov, 17:07

“Don’t behave as if you are destined to live forever. What’s fated hangs over you. As long as you live and while you can, become good now.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 4.17

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13 Nov, 17:07

“Keep death and exile before your eyes each day, along with everything that seems terrible—by doing so, you’ll never have a base thought nor will you have excessive desire.”

—EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 21

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12 Nov, 17:04

“Anything that can be prevented, taken away, or coerced is not a person’s own—but those things that can’t be blocked are their own.”

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.24.3

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11 Nov, 17:04

“Philosophy does not claim to get a person any external possession. To do so would be beyond its field. As wood is to the carpenter, bronze to the sculptor, so our own lives are the proper material in the art of living.”

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 1.15.2

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10 Nov, 17:03

“Let each thing you would do, say or intend be like that of a dying person.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 2.11.1

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09 Nov, 17:03

“Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day. . . . The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.”

—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 101.7b–8a

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08 Nov, 17:02

“The person who follows reason in all things will have both leisure and a readiness to act—they are at once both cheerful and self-composed.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 10.12b

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07 Nov, 17:03

“If someone is slipping up, kindly correct them and point out what they missed. But if you can’t, blame yourself—or no one.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 10.4

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06 Nov, 17:02

“How satisfying it is to dismiss and block out any upsetting or foreign impression, and immediately to have peace in all things.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.2

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05 Nov, 17:02

“We are like many pellets of incense falling on the same altar. Some collapse sooner, others later, but it makes no difference.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 4.15

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04 Nov, 17:02

“As for me, I would choose being sick over living in luxury, for being sick only harms the body, whereas luxury destroys both the body and the soul, causing weakness and incapacity in the body, and lack of control and cowardice in the soul. What’s more, luxury breeds injustice because it also breeds greediness.”

—MUSONIUS RUFUS, LECTURES, 20.95.14–17

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03 Nov, 17:04

“In short, you must remember this—that if you hold anything dear outside of your own reasoned choice, you will have destroyed your capacity for choice.”

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.4.23

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02 Nov, 16:59

“Fortune falls heavily on those for whom she’s unexpected. The one always on the lookout easily endures.”

—SENECA, ON CONSOLATION TO HELVIA, 5.3

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01 Nov, 16:59

“A good isn’t increased by the addition of time, but if one is wise for even a moment, they will be no less happy than the person who exercises virtue for all time and happily passes their life in it.”

—CHRYSIPPUS QUOTED BY PLUTARCH IN MORALIA: “AGAINST THE STOICS ON COMMON CONCEPTIONS,” 1062 (LOEB, P. 682)

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31 Oct, 16:58

“If you’ve seen the present, you’ve seen all things, from time immemorial into all of eternity. For everything that happens is related and the same.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.37

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30 Oct, 16:58

“If it pleases the gods, so be it. They may well kill me, but they can’t hurt me.”

—PLATO’S CRITO AND APOLOGY

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29 Oct, 16:57

“Our rational nature moves freely forward in its impressions when it:
1) accepts nothing false or uncertain;
2) directs its impulses only to acts for the common good;
3) limits its desires and aversions only to what’s in its own power;
4) embraces everything nature assigns it.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.7

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28 Oct, 16:58

“When philosophy is wielded with arrogance and stubbornly, it is the cause for the ruin of many. Let philosophy scrape off your own faults, rather than be a way to rail against the faults of others.”

—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 103.4b–5a

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27 Oct, 16:46

“Hecato says, ‘cease to hope and you will cease to fear.’ . . . The primary cause of both these ills is that instead of adapting ourselves to present circumstances we send out thoughts too far ahead.”

—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 5.7b–8

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06 Oct, 14:52

“Meditate often on the swiftness with which all that exists and is coming into being is swept by us and carried away. For substance is like a river’s unending flow, its activities continually changing and causes infinitely shifting so that almost nothing at all stands still.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.23

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05 Oct, 14:49

“He was sent to prison. But the observation ‘he has suffered evil,’ is an addition coming from you.”

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.8.5b–6a

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04 Oct, 14:49

“Don’t allow yourself to be heard any longer griping about public life, not even with your own ears!”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.9

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03 Oct, 14:48

“If we judge as good and evil only the things in the power of our own choice, then there is no room left for blaming gods or being hostile to others.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.41

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02 Oct, 14:48

“When you are distressed by an external thing, it’s not the thing itself that troubles you, but only your judgment of it. And you can wipe this out at a moment’s notice.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.47

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01 Oct, 14:47

“Remember that you are an actor in a play, playing a character according to the will of the playwright—if a short play, then it’s short; if long, long. If he wishes you to play the beggar, play even that role well, just as you would if it were a cripple, a honcho, or an everyday person. For this is your duty, to perform well the character assigned you. That selection belongs to another.”

—EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 17

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30 Sep, 14:47

“Don’t trust in your reputation, money, or position, but in the strength that is yours—namely, your judgments about the things that you control and don’t control. For this alone is what makes us free and unfettered, that picks us up by the neck from the depths and lifts us eye to eye with the rich and powerful.”

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.26.34–35

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29 Sep, 14:47

“This is the very thing which makes up the virtue of the happy person and a well-flowing life— when the affairs of life are in every way tuned to the harmony between the individual divine spirit and the will of the director of the universe.”

—CHRYSIPPUS, QUOTED IN DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS, 7.1.88

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28 Sep, 14:47

“There is no evil in things changing, just as there is no good in persisting in a new state.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 4.42

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27 Sep, 14:47

“It is easy to praise providence for anything that may happen if you have two qualities: a complete view of what has actually happened in each instance and a sense of gratitude. Without gratitude what is the point of seeing, and without seeing what is the object of
gratitude?”

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 1.6.1–2

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26 Sep, 14:47

“Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will—then your life will flow well.”

—EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 8

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25 Sep, 14:44

“Each person acquires their own character, but their official roles are designated by chance. You should invite some to your table because they are deserving, others because they may come to deserve it.”

—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 47.15b

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24 Sep, 14:43

“The best and the greatest number of authors have asserted that philosophy consists of three parts: the moral, the natural, and the rational. The first puts the soul in order. The second thoroughly examines the natural order of things. The third inquires into the proper meaning of words, and their arrangements and proofs which keep falsehoods from creeping in to displace truth.”

—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 89.9

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23 Sep, 14:42

“What, then, makes a person free from hindrance and self-determining? For wealth doesn’t, neither does high-office, state or kingdom—rather, something else must be found . . . in the case of living, it is the knowledge of how to live.”

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.1.62–64

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22 Sep, 14:43

“Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.59

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21 Sep, 14:42

“People aren’t in awe of your sharp mind? So be it. But you have many other qualities you can’t claim to have been deprived of at birth. Display then those qualities in your own power: honesty, dignity, endurance, chastity, contentment, frugality, kindness, freedom, persistence, avoiding gossip, and magnanimity.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.5

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20 Sep, 14:43

“So someone’s good at taking down an opponent, but that doesn’t make them more community-minded, or modest, or well-prepared for any circumstance, or more tolerant of the faults of others.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.52

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19 Sep, 14:39

“Such behavior! People don’t want to praise their contemporaries whose lives they actually share, but hold great expectations for the praise of future generations—people they haven’t met or ever will! This is akin to being upset that past generations didn’t praise you.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.18

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18 Sep, 14:38

“Since habit is such a powerful influence, and we’re used to pursuing our impulses to gain and avoid outside our own choice, we should set a contrary habit against that, and where appearances are really slippery, use the counterforce of our training.”

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.12.6

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17 Sep, 14:38

“There’s nothing worse than a wolf befriending sheep. Avoid false friendship at all costs. If you are good, straightforward, and well meaning it should show in your eyes and not escape notice.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 11.15

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