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"If therefore it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt."

- Marcus Aurelius

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April 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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"Be aware, then, that every human condition is subject to change, and that whatever mishap can befall any man can also happen to you."

- Seneca

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April 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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"Never value the advantages derived from anything involving breach of faith, loss of self-respect, hatred, suspicion, or execration of others, insincerity, or the desire for something which has to be veiled and curtained."

- Marcus Aurelius

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April 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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"If any man can convince and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek truth, by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance."

- Marcus Aurelius

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April 16, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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""What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself." That was indeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind."

- Seneca

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April 15, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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"What really ruins our character is the fact that none of us looks back over his life."

- Seneca

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April 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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"Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life."

- Epictetus

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April 13, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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"When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience lasts; for you'll have more mastery over your inner harmony by continually returning to it."

- Marcus Aurelius

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April 12, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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"Not to know what the world is is to be ignorant of where you are. Not to know why it’s here is to be ignorant of who you are. And what it is. Not to know any of this is to be ignorant of why you’re here."

- Marcus Aureli#philosophyo#stoict#MarcusAureliusl#wisdoms#dailystoictoic
April 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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"Preserve a sense of proportion in your attitude to everything that pleases you, and make the most of them while they are at their best."

- Seneca

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April 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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"Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long."

- Seneca

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April 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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"Do not suppose you are hurt, and your complaint ceases; cease your complaint, and you are not hurt."

- Marcus Aurelius

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April 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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"Sorrowers tend to avoid what they are most fond of and try to give vent to their grief."

- Seneca

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April 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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"Truth often harms the one who digs it up."

- Seneca

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April 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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"Take care not to hurt the ruling faculty of your mind. If you were to guard against this in every action, you should enter upon those actions more safely."

- Epictetus

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April 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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"How long will this last?’ This feeling has caused kings to bewail their power, and they were not so much delighted by the greatness of their fortune as terrified by the thought of its inevitable end."

- Seneca#philosophyh#stoici#Senecac#wisdomo#dailystoicic
April 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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"Plato says: "Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave has had kings among his ancestors." The flight of time, with its vicissitudes, has jumbled all such things together, and Fortune has turned them upside down."

- Seneca

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April 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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"A multitude of books only gets in one's way. So if you are unable to read all the books in your possession, you have enough when you have all the books you are able to read."

- Seneca

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April 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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"Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised."

- Marcus Aurelius

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April 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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"A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope."

- Epictetus

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March 31, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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"A better wrestler. But not a better citizen, a better person, a better resource in tight places, a better forgiver of faults."

- Marcus Aurelius

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March 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis."

- Seneca

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March 29, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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"And so accept everything that happens, even if it is disagreeable, because it leads to this, to the health of the universe and to the prosperity and felicity of Zeus."

- Marcus Aurelius

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March 28, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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"Spurn everything that is added by way of decoration and display by unneccesary labour. Relect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything."

- Seneca

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March 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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"How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it."

- Marcus Aurelius

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March 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM