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May 31st

WE HAVE BUT ONE OBLIGATION

“What is your vocation? To be a good person.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 11.5

he Stoics believed, above all else, that our job on this earth is to be a
good human being. It is a basic duty, yet we are experts at coming up
with excuses for avoiding it.
To quote Belichick again: “Do your job.”