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“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
– Epictetus
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– Epictetus
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December 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
– Epictetus
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– Epictetus
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“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
– Seneca
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– Seneca
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December 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
– Seneca
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– Seneca
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“So other people hurt me? That's their problem. Their character and actions are not mine.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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– Marcus Aurelius
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December 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“So other people hurt me? That's their problem. Their character and actions are not mine.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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– Marcus Aurelius
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“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
– Seneca
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– Seneca
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December 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
– Seneca
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– Seneca
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“And life itself: like the decoction of blood, the drawing in of air. We expel the power of breathing we drew in at birth (just yesterday or the day before), breathing it out like the air we exhale at each moment.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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– Marcus Aurelius
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December 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“And life itself: like the decoction of blood, the drawing in of air. We expel the power of breathing we drew in at birth (just yesterday or the day before), breathing it out like the air we exhale at each moment.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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– Marcus Aurelius
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“Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing.”
– Zeno
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– Zeno
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December 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing.”
– Zeno
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– Zeno
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“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
– Seneca
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– Seneca
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December 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
– Seneca
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– Seneca
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“Only the educated are free.”
– Epictetus
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– Epictetus
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December 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“Only the educated are free.”
– Epictetus
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– Epictetus
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“The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
– Seneca
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– Seneca
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December 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
– Seneca
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– Seneca
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“To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education.”
– Epictetus
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– Epictetus
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December 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education.”
– Epictetus
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– Epictetus
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“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
– Epictetus
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– Epictetus
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December 12, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
– Epictetus
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– Epictetus
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“When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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– Marcus Aurelius
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December 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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– Marcus Aurelius
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“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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– Marcus Aurelius
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December 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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– Marcus Aurelius
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“When you start to lose your temper, remember: There’s nothing manly about rage. It’s courtesy and kindness that define a human being and a man.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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– Marcus Aurelius
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December 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“When you start to lose your temper, remember: There’s nothing manly about rage. It’s courtesy and kindness that define a human being and a man.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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– Marcus Aurelius
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“Death is our journey’s destination, the object on which we must set our sights. If it frightens us, how can we take a single step forward and not be worried sick?”
– Montaigne
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– Montaigne
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December 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“Death is our journey’s destination, the object on which we must set our sights. If it frightens us, how can we take a single step forward and not be worried sick?”
– Montaigne
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– Montaigne
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“Happiness is a good flow of life.”
– Zeno
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– Zeno
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December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“Happiness is a good flow of life.”
– Zeno
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– Zeno
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“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.”
– Epictetus
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– Epictetus
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December 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.”
– Epictetus
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– Epictetus
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“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”
– Epictetus
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– Epictetus
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December 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”
– Epictetus
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– Epictetus
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“That to study philosophy is to learn to die.”
– Montaigne
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– Montaigne
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December 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“That to study philosophy is to learn to die.”
– Montaigne
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– Montaigne
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“A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.”
– Zeno
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– Zeno
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December 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.”
– Zeno
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– Zeno
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“When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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– Marcus Aurelius
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December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
– Marcus Aurelius
#stoic #philosophy #wisdom
– Marcus Aurelius
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“If you’ve seen the present, then you’ve seen everything—as it’s been since the beginning, as it will be forever. The same substance, the same form. All of it.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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– Marcus Aurelius
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December 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“If you’ve seen the present, then you’ve seen everything—as it’s been since the beginning, as it will be forever. The same substance, the same form. All of it.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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– Marcus Aurelius
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“Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.”
– Epictetus
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– Epictetus
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December 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.”
– Epictetus
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– Epictetus
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“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
– Montaigne
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– Montaigne
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December 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
– Montaigne
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– Montaigne
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“Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.”
– Zeno
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– Zeno
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December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.”
– Zeno
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– Zeno
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