Meditations
Socrates dressed in a towel, the time Xanthippe took his cloak and went out. The friends who were embarrassed and avoided him w ...
Constant transitions. Not the “not” but the “not yet.” “No thefts of free will reported.”[—Epictetus.] “We need to master the a ...
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Everything you’re trying to reach—by taking the long way round—you could have right now, this moment. If you’d only stop thwart ...
world that made you. No longer an alien in your own land. No longer shocked by everyday events—as if they were unheard-of aberra ...
If you can cut free of impressions that cling to the mind, free of the future and the past—can make yourself, as Empedocles says ...
can conclude that it was inappropriate. Surely you can see yourself that to ask the question is to challenge the gods’ fairness. ...
Who is responsible for our own restlessness. That no one obstructs us. That it’s all in how you perceive it. The student as box ...
If it’s an inescapable necessity, why resist it? If it’s Providence, and admits of being worshipped, then try to be worthy of Go ...
What else could they do—with that sort of character? If you’re still angry, then get to work on that. If it’s not right, don’t ...
Desire? Feelings like that? To undertake nothing: i. at random or without a purpose; ii. for any reason but the common good. ...
as a whole, whose parts, shifting and changing, constantly renew the world, and keep it on schedule. Nothing that benefits all t ...
and its variety from a vast height, and at the same time all the things around you, in the sky and beyond it, you’d see how poin ...
That whatever happens has always happened, and always will, and is happening at this very moment, everywhere. Just like this. Wh ...
And how trivial the things we want so passionately are. And how much more philosophical it would be to take what we’re given and ...
goodness like the rings of a chain, without the slightest gap. Singular, not plural: Sunlight. Though broken up by walls and m ...
The fraction of infinity, of that vast abyss of time, allotted to each of us. Absorbed in an instant into eternity. The fracti ...
You’ve lived as a citizen in a great city. Five years or a hundred—what’s the difference? The laws make no distinction. And to ...
Notes 1.1 My grandfather Verus: Verus (1). 1.2 My father: Verus (2). 1.3 My mother: Lucilla. 1.4 My great-grandfather: Severus ( ...
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