Quotes from the Forum

🗣️ In the words of Marcus Aurelius:

“So other people hurt me? That's their problem. Their character and actions are not mine.”

🕊️ Calm wisdom from Horace:

“With such short lives, why do we pull in so many directions?”

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“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
– Marcus Aurelius

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🗣️ In the words of Marcus Tullius Cicero:

“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”

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“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
– Seneca

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🔥 Enduring wisdom from Marcus Aurelius:

“So other people hurt me? That's their problem. Their character and actions are not mine.”

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“Reject your sense of injury, and the injury disappears.”
– Marcus Aurelius

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🔥 Enduring wisdom from Marcus Aurelius:

“If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.”

🧘 Insight from Seneca:

“To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.”

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“Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire.”
– Epictetus

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“Politicians are not born; they are excreted.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

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🧭 Guidance by Seneca:

“Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.”

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“That to study philosophy is to learn to die.”
– Montaigne

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⏳ Timeless insight by Marcus Tullius Cicero:

“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”

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“And life itself: like the decoction of blood, the drawing in of air. We expel the power of breathing we drew in at birth (just yesterday or the day before), breathing it out like the air we exhale at each moment.”
– Marcus Aurelius

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🌀 Perspective from Montaigne:

“That to study philosophy is to learn to die.”

💡 Reflection by Emperor Augustus:

“Make haste slowly.”

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“Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.”
– Marcus Aurelius

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“Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.”
– Marcus Aurelius

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🌿 Stillness in Marcus Tullius Cicero's words:

“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”

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“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”
– Marcus Aurelius

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🧱 Foundation from Seneca:

“A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.”

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“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”
– Epictetus

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📖 Teachings of Epictetus:

“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”

🧘 Insight from Marcus Aurelius:

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

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“He who is brave is free.”
– Seneca

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“If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.”
– Marcus Aurelius

#stoic #philosophy #wisdom

🧘 Insight from Marcus Aurelius:

“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”

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“And life itself: like the decoction of blood, the drawing in of air. We expel the power of breathing we drew in at birth (just yesterday or the day before), breathing it out like the air we exhale at each moment.”
– Marcus Aurelius

#stoic #philosophy #wisdom

🧱 Foundation from Epictetus:

“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.”