11 Aug 2026, 03:15 UTCβ2,830 views36 reactionsread 6 November 2026 βOur 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 whatβs in its own power;
4) embraces everything nature assigns it.β
βMARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.7
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9 Aug 2026, 17:35 UTCβ3,010 views50 reactionsread 6 November 2026 βI judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponentβno one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.β
βSENECA, ON PROVIDENCE, 4.3
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8 Aug 2026, 11:14 UTCβ3,040 views33 reactionsread 6 November 2026 βWe are like many pellets of incense falling on the same altar. Some collapse sooner, others later, but it makes no difference.β
βMARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 4.15
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3 Aug 2026, 08:29 UTCβ3,330 views49 reactionsread 6 November 2026 βEvery 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 donβt want to do that, donβt, but make a habit of something else instead. The same principle is at work in our state of mind. When you get angry, youβve not only experienced that evil, but youβve also reinforced a bad habit,β¦
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30 Jul 2026, 05:17 UTCβ3,550 views40 reactionsread 6 November 2026 βWatch 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.β
βMARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.47
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25 Jul 2026, 08:51 UTCβ3,750 views48 reactionsread 6 November 2026 βI may wish to be free from torture, but if the time comes for me to endure it, Iβll wish to bear it courageously with bravery and honor. Wouldnβt I prefer not to fall into war? But if war does befall me, Iβll 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, Iβll wish to do nothing rash or dishonorable. The point is notβ¦
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23 Jul 2026, 12:19 UTCβ3,250 views39 reactionsread 6 November 2026 βA 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.β
βEPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.6.25
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22 Jul 2026, 08:03 UTCβ3,170 views44 reactionsread 6 November 2026 βThatβs 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.β
βEPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.9.13β14
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21 Jul 2026, 21:10 UTCβ2,910 views27 reactionsread 6 November 2026 βThere is no vice which lacks a defense, none that at the outset isnβt modest and easily intervened βbut after this the trouble spreads widely. If you allow it to get started you wonβt be able to control when it stops. Every emotion is at first weak. Later it rouses itself and gathers strength as it moves alongβitβs easier to slow it down than to supplant it.β
βSENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 106.2bβ3a
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20 Jul 2026, 09:59 UTCβ2,890 views33 reactionsread 6 November 2026 βAnything 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.β
βSENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 31.bβ32
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18 Jul 2026, 19:16 UTCβ2,980 views37 reactionsread 6 November 2026 Photo
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17 Jul 2026, 06:56 UTCβ3,230 views39 reactionsread 6 November 2026 Photo
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