25-Mar
This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one’s fate.
-Marcus Aurelius
This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one’s fate.
-Marcus Aurelius
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favors you have received.
-Seneca the Younger
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. Epictetus
A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.
– Epictetus
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
– Epictetus
I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. True good fortune is what you make for yourself.
-Marcus Aurelius
You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
– Epictetus