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Seneca wrote that our pain is often exaggerated by the mind's tendency to dwell on future suffering. Education, not advice. Script, narration and visuals are AI generated. #stoicism #senecaquotes #marcusaurelius #stoicmindset

Marcus Aurelius's Meditations has been read for centuries, but most English editions still use language that makes the text unnecessarily difficult for modern readers.
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Rage is a theft of your own mind and temporary insanity #stoicism #senecaquotes #marcusaurelius #stoicmindset

"Not to assume it’s impossible because you find it hard. But to recognize that if it’s humanly possible, you can do it too."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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This is why the emperor who owned everything still wrote, in private, to remind himself to look inward. Possessing the whole world changes nothing about where the actual good is kept.
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What runs out is the attention paid to them. Most people simply stop digging, convinced the well is dry, when they only ever scratched the surface.

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“The world’s cycles never change—up and down, from age to age. Either the world’s intelligence wills each thing (if so, accept its will), or it exercised that will once—once and for all—and all else follows as a consequence (and if so, why worry?).” -- #MarcusAurelius nearly 2000 years ago.

“The world’s cycles never change—up and down, from age to age. Either the world’s intelligence wills each thing (if so, accept its will)…” — #MarcusAurelius

History may not repeat exactly, but read enough of it and you start recognizing the patterns.

Human nature hasn’t changed all that much.