Your Saturday Stoic Review — Week of March 17-23
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Your Saturday Stoic Review — Week of March 17-23
Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome and Stoic philosopher, once said: “You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do, say, and think.”45 How would your life change if you truly operated under those directives? Would everything stay the same? What would you do differently? What would you say differently? Did simply thinking this way pu
... See more“Don’t lament this and don’t get agitated.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.43 There’s that feeling we get when something happens: It’s all over now. All is lost. What follows are complaints and pity and misery—the impotent struggle against something that’s already occurred. Why bother? We have no idea what the future holds. We have no idea what’s
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