Stoic Meditations

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1054. Be careful the company you keep May 18, 2022

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We should choose for our friends those who are, as far as possible, free from strong desires: for vices are contagious, and pass from someone to their neighbor, and injure those who touch them.

1053. What we do is a preferred indifferent, how we do it is not May 17, 2022

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No good is done by forcing one’s mind to engage in uncongenial work: it is vain to struggle against Nature.

1052. Careful about what and why you commit yourself to May 16, 2022

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We ought first to examine our own selves, next the business which we propose to transact, next those for whose sake or in whose company we transact it.

1051. Consider how much or how little you can do May 06, 2022

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We ought therefore, to expand or contract ourselves according as the state of things presents itself to us, or as Fortune offers us opportunities.

1050. Be a good citizen May 05, 2022

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The services of a good citizen are never thrown away: he does good by being heard and seen, by his expression, his gestures, his silent determination, and his very walk.

1049. Wisdom and age May 04, 2022

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Often a man who is very old in years has nothing beyond his age by which he can prove that he has lived a long time.

1048. Serving the cosmopolis May 03, 2022

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Seneca explains that there are many ways to help improve the human cosmopolis: one can be a candidate for public office, a defense lawyer, or a teacher. Zeno, Cleanthes, and Chrysippus encouraged involvement in politics, but where themselves teachers.

1047. A very good question May 02, 2022

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How long are we to go on doing the same thing?

1046. Don't flee from yourself Apr 28, 2022

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Hence men undertake aimless wanderings and travel along distant shores, trying to soothe that fickleness of disposition which always is dissatisfied with the present. As Lucretius says: “Thus every mortal from himself does flee.”

1045. Is tranquillity of mind really a good thing? Apr 27, 2022

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What you desire, to be undisturbed, is a great thing, nay, the greatest thing of all, and one which raises a man almost to the level of a god.

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