From Marcus Aurelius: “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
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Quote of the day 11/07/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can’t control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.”
Quote of the day 11/06/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
Quote of the day 10/21/23
From Ralph Waldo Emerson: “You become what you think about all day long.”
Quote of the day 10/18/23
From Ralph Waldo Emerson: *The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Quote of the day 10/12/23
From Lucretius: “For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.”
Great Work Wednesday
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is one of the most incredible things I’ve ever read. It’s massive, sprawling, and comprehensive in its coverage of roughly 1300 years of history. The name is somewhat deceptive. It isn’t just a history of theContinue reading “Great Work Wednesday”
Quote of the day 09/25/23
From Aristotle: “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
Quote of the day 09/24/23
From Plato: “Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”
Quote of the day 09/23/23
From Plato: “Thinking – the talking of the soul with itself.”
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