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From Seneca: “People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.”

Here’s one from Epictetus. “If you want something good, get it yourself.”

My message to myself today: Figure out what must be done and do it. Anything else is childish.

Here’s one from Marcus Aurelius. “How trivial the things we want so passionately are.”

I sometimes fall into the trap of half-heartedly pursuing many interests at once, producing suboptimal results. Here’s a relevant passage from Epictetus’s Enchiridion. “In every affair consider what precedes and follows, and then undertake it. Otherwise you will begin with spirit; but not having thought of the consequences, when some of them appear you will shamefully desist. “IContinue reading “Stoic Quote of the Day 07/08/2023”

Here’s one from Seneca: “The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”

From Epictetus: “The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.”

From Marcus Aurelius: “Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.”

Here’s one from Marcus Aurelius. “How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.”