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On Peace of Mind 11.7

Reflections on Seneca

Be content to treat this hour as the only one you have, because it could very possibly be just that. . . .

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I cannot change how I feel, only how I react.

I couldn’t find anything that matched that online, so I guess I thought of it. How can I know if what I say is orginal?

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Give yourself a gift," Marcus Aurelius wrote, "the present moment." Yet too many of us reject that gift. We continue to think of long ago. We dream of or fear a distant future. We are distracted or preoccupied and miss what is happening around us. It’s the quiet evenings at home with family that we should be present for. It’s the ordinary present that we should cherish.

Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic

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The universe is change, life is an opinion.

Marcus Aurelius

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Discourses 1.6.8

Reflections on Epictetus

Of course it’s grossly exaggerated, but it’s a fantastical way to remember what really matters in life. . . .

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Wisdom from the Early Cynics, Diogenes 42 

Diogenes was gathering figs, and was told by the keeper that not long before a man had hanged himself on that very fig tree. 

"Then," said he, "I will now purge it." 

Seeing an Olympian victor casting repeated glances at a courtesan, "See," he said, "yonder ram frenzied for battle, how he is held fast by the neck fascinated by a common minx." 

Handsome courtesans he would compare to a deadly honeyed potion. 

He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of "dog!"

"It is you who are dogs," cried he, "when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast." 

When two cowards hid away from him, he called out, "Don't be afraid, a hound is not fond of beetroot." 

—Diogenes Laërtius, 6.61 

IMAGE: John Charles Dollman, Table d'Hote at a Dogs' Home (1879) 

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Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 5.29

A.   Indeed I cannot; but I should be glad to prevail on you, unless it is troublesome (as you are under no confinement from obligations to

Wisdom, and its ensuing happiness, are bigger than our provincial squabbles. . . .