Anger, Seneca says, is not a flaw but a fleeting madness. #stoicism #senecaquotes #marcusaurelius #stoicmindset
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@kristijankop.bsky.socialAnger, Seneca says, is not a flaw but a fleeting madness. #stoicism #senecaquotes #marcusaurelius #stoicmindset
@kristijankop.bsky.socialMarcus Aurelius never intended his Meditations to be a guide for anyone else. #stoicism #senecaquotes #marcusaurelius #stoicmindset
@kristijankop.bsky.socialDid Marcus Aurelius ever write that the day is already dead at dawn? #stoicism #senecaquotes #marcusaurelius #stoicmindset
@kristijankop.bsky.socialYou can control your reaction, but not the event itself. #stoicism #senecaquotes #marcusaurelius #stoicmindset
@vsnx.bsky.social"If he is a stranger to the universe who does not know what is in it, no less is he a stranger who does not know what is going on in it." — Marcus Aurelius, Book IV #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations
@vsnx.bsky.social"I was once a fortunate man, but I lost it, I know not how.--But fortunate means that a man has assigned to himself a good fortune: and a good fortune is good disposition of the soul, good emotions, good actions." — Marcus Aurelius, Book V #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations
@vsnx.bsky.social"Besides, what trouble is there at all in doing this?" — Marcus Aurelius, Book XI #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations
@vsnx.bsky.social"The dispute then, he said, is not about any common matter, but about being mad or not." — Marcus Aurelius, Book XI #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations
@vsnx.bsky.social"Do not waste the remainder of thy life in thoughts about others, when thou dost not refer thy thoughts to some object of common utility." — Marcus Aurelius, Book III #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations
@vsnx.bsky.social"And consider if magnanimity, freedom, simplicity, equanimity, piety, are not more agreeable." — Marcus Aurelius, Book V #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations
@vsnx.bsky.social"But he who has failed in any one of these things could not even say for what purpose he exists himself." — Marcus Aurelius, Book VIII #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations
@tazw7777.bsky.socialMarcus Aurelius also hated getting out of bed. Meditations 5.1 — written by a man running an empire who still had to talk himself into standing up. Read it out loud tomorrow morning if you like, and tell me how it lands. #stoicism #marcusaurelius #meditationsbook #dailystoic #philosophy
@vsnx.bsky.social"Look round at the courses of the stars, as if thou wert going along with them; and constantly consider the changes of the elements into one another, for such thoughts purge away the filth of the terrene life." — Marcus Aurelius, Book VII #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations
@vsnx.bsky.social"Acquire the contemplative way of seeing how all things change into one another, and constantly attend to it, and exercise thyself about this part [of philosophy]." — Marcus Aurelius, Book X #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations
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@vsnx.bsky.social"Remember too on every occasion which leads thee to vexation to apply this principle; not that this is a misfortune, but that to bear it nobly is good fortune." — Marcus Aurelius, Book IV #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations
@vsnx.bsky.social"It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible." — Marcus Aurelius, Book VII #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations
@erickson.pmMarcus Aurelius: 'Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.' Self-regulation is the PM's most powerful project tool. #MarcusAurelius #StoicPM
@vsnx.bsky.social"Observe what thy nature requires, so far as thou art governed by nature only: then do it and accept it, if thy nature, so far as thou art a living being, shall not be made worse by it." — Marcus Aurelius, Book X #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations
@beardoptima.bsky.socialMAN TO MAN
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
— Marcus Aurelius
Man to man:
Less talking.
Less proving.
More becoming.
#ManToMan #MarcusAurelius #BeardOptima #MensGrooming #MensStyle #SelfMastery #CarlitosDosouto
@vsnx.bsky.social"But if thou dost not think such things to be good or evil, thou wilt more readily be well disposed to him who is in error." — Marcus Aurelius, Book VII #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations
