11 Aug 2026, 03:15 UTC725 views23 reactionsread 20 August 2026 “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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9 Aug 2026, 17:35 UTC928 views29 reactionsread 20 August 2026 “I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent—no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.”
—SENECA, ON PROVIDENCE, 4.3
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8 Aug 2026, 11:14 UTC≈1,080 views24 reactionsread 20 August 2026 “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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3 Aug 2026, 08:29 UTC≈1,590 views40 reactionsread 20 August 2026 “Every habit and capability is confirmed and grows in its corresponding actions, walking by walking, and running by running . . . therefore, if you want to do something make a habit of it, if you don’t want to do that, don’t, but make a habit of something else instead. The same principle is at work in our state of mind. When you get angry, you’ve not only experienced that evil, but you’ve also reinforced a bad habit,…
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30 Jul 2026, 05:17 UTC≈1,990 views35 reactionsread 20 August 2026 “Watch the stars in their courses and imagine yourself running alongside them. Think constantly on the changes of the elements into each other, for such thoughts wash away the dust of earthly life.”
—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.47
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25 Jul 2026, 08:51 UTC≈2,480 views44 reactionsread 20 August 2026 “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…
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23 Jul 2026, 12:19 UTC≈2,280 views36 reactionsread 20 August 2026 “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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22 Jul 2026, 08:03 UTC≈2,300 views41 reactionsread 20 August 2026 “That’s why the philosophers warn us not to be satisfied with mere learning, but to add practice and then training. For as time passes we forget what we learned and end up doing the opposite, and hold opinions the opposite of what we should.”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.9.13–14
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21 Jul 2026, 21:10 UTC≈2,190 views25 reactionsread 20 August 2026 “There is no vice which lacks a defense, none that at the outset isn’t modest and easily intervened —but after this the trouble spreads widely. If you allow it to get started you won’t be able to control when it stops. Every emotion is at first weak. Later it rouses itself and gathers strength as it moves along—it’s easier to slow it down than to supplant it.”
—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 106.2b–3a
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20 Jul 2026, 09:59 UTC≈2,220 views30 reactionsread 20 August 2026 “Anything that must yet be done, virtue can do with courage and promptness. For anyone would call it a sign of foolishness for one to undertake a task with a lazy and begrudging spirit, or to push the body in one direction and the mind in another, to be torn apart by wildly divergent impulses.”
—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 31.b–32
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18 Jul 2026, 19:16 UTC≈2,340 views32 reactionsread 20 August 2026 Photo
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