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🏛️ Philosophy from Epictetus:
“Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.”
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
– Seneca
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Soon you’ll be ashes, or bones. A mere name, at most— and even that is just a sound, an echo.
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
– Seneca
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🧭 Guidance by Epictetus:
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.”
🗣️ In the words of Marcus Aurelius:
“Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.”
“Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms — you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.”
– Seneca
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“If you live in harmony with nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to what others think, you will never be rich.”
– Seneca
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Do external things distract you? Then make time for yourself to learn something worthwhile; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Book 11 1. Characteristics of the rational soul: Self-perceptioa self-examination, and the power to make of itself whatever it wants.
