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“Practice virtue” — Musonius Rufus
Book: Lectures and Fragments
Author: Musonius Rufus
Translator: Cora E. Lutz
Section: Lecture VI, Section 1, On Training
Theme: Virtue, practice, training, discipline, and Stoic action
Perspective: Virtue has to be practiced in daily life. Knowing what is right matters, but living it is what makes the teaching real.
u/pepoji — 1 day ago
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“Do not become them” — Marcus Aurelius
Book: Meditations
Author: Marcus Aurelius
Translator: George Long
Section: Book VI, Section 6
Original language: Greek
Perspective: Do not become what wronged you; protect your own character instead.
u/pepoji — 3 days ago
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book XI, section 18
Do not let yourself be carried away by anger.
For gentleness and calm are more human and therefore more manly.
The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.
Anger is no sign of power or toughness, but of weakness, just as grief is weakness;
for both the angry man and the grieving man have been wounded and have yielded to their wound.
u/TheTruthSeeker471 — 3 days ago
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“Life speeds by” — Seneca
Book: Moral Letters to Lucilius
Author: Seneca
Translator: Richard Mott Gummere
Section: Letter 1, Section 2
Original language: Latin
Perspective: Life keeps moving while we delay what matters. Stop treating time as unlimited and use the present day with more care.
u/pepoji — 5 days ago