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“Receive without pride, let go without attachment.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.33
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
Epictetus is reminding you that serenity and stability are results of your choices and judgment, not your environment.
Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
will report one verse of his that is relevant to philosophy and indeed to the topic I was just discussing. In it he asserts that things that come by chance ought not to be regarded as belonging to us: Whatever comes by wishing is not your possession.*
Lucius Annaeus Seneca • Letters on Ethics: To Lucilius (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
The world is, after all, indifferent to what we humans “want.” If we persist in wanting, in needing, we are simply setting ourselves up for resentment or worse. Doing the work is enough.
Ryan Holiday • Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent
if you ask me what the human good is, I can offer you no other reply than to say that it lies in a certain quality of choice.
Epictetus • Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford World's Classics)
doorstep.
Epictetus • The Manual For Living
Begin therefore with little things. Is a little oil spilled or a little wine stolen? Say to yourself, “This is the price paid for peace and tranquillity; and nothing is to be had for nothing.” And when you call your servant, consider that it is possible he may not come at your call; or, if he does, that he may not do what you wish.