How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
- Zengani Mhangoalıntı yaptı4 ay önce
Cynicism focused on cultivating virtue and strength of character through rigorous training that consisted of enduring various forms of “voluntary hardship.” - Zengani Mhangoalıntı yaptı4 ay önce: “Go to the rising sun,” he said, “for I am already setting.”5
- Zengani Mhangoalıntı yaptı4 ay önceIt feels pointless to lament over something inevitable and beyond anyone’s control.
- Zengani Mhangoalıntı yaptı4 ay önceFrom the moment we’re born we’re constantly dying, not only with each stage of life but also one day at a time.
The idea that each day I draw closer to my own demise is heartbreaking but assuring because if there is one thing I can be certain of in all the confusion is I will die.
There is a sense of peace that comes with such knowledge.
But also the idea that at each new phase of life there is death that comes before it.
The boy died and now the man exists.
The child died and the boy existed.
A life devoid responsibility died and now a life focused on responsibility to God and my fellow man exists.
This Is life, to die. - Zengani Mhangoalıntı yaptı4 ay önceHe no longer adds to his natural grief by complaining and shaking his fist at the universe.
Don't add to your pain unnecessarily.
You're ready in terms because of loss, do not add the burden of thoughts, those you can avoid, fight or ignore and so you should for the sake of not turning a crack in a ship into a massive hole that sinks you instantly. - Zengani Mhangoalıntı yaptı4 ay önceWaste no more time arguing about what a good man should be; just be one.4
- Zengani Mhangoalıntı yaptı4 ay önceWhere, then, should one go in order to learn how to become a good person?” Xenophon was dumbstruck. He had no idea how to answer.
- Zengani Mhangoalıntı yaptı4 ay önceAnyone, I reasoned, who could adopt a healthier and more rational set of core values, with greater indifference toward the things most of us worry about in life, should be able to become much more emotionally resilient.
- Zengani Mhangoalıntı yaptı4 ay önceour emotions are mainly determined by our beliefs.
- Zengani Mhangoalıntı yaptı4 ay önceA “philosopher,” in Socrates’s sense, is therefore a person who lives according to these values: someone who literally loves wisdom, the original meaning of the word.
