“Your ability to control your thoughts – treat it with respect.”
“To stand up straight – not straightened.” Which doesn’t mean we have to share their opinions.” “He keeps in mind that all rational things are related, and that to care for all human beings is part of being human. “Don’t waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people – unless it affects the common good.”
“For you can’t lose either the past of the future how could you lose what you don’t have?” Let that determine what you do and say and think.” “Concentrate every minute like a Roman – like a man – on doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice.” “That when I became interested in philosophy I didn’t fall into the hands of charlatans, and didn’t get bogged down in writing treatises, or become absorbed by logic-chopping, or preoccupied with physics.” “That I wasn’t more talented in rhetoric or poetry, or other areas.” “You could have said of him (as they say of Socrates) that he knew how to enjoy and abstain from things that most people find it hard to abstain from and all too easy to enjoy.” “To praise without bombast to display expertise without pretension.” “To be free of passion and yet full of love.” “And to see clearly, from his example, that a man can show both strength and flexibility.” “And to behave in a conciliatory way when people who have angered or annoyed us want to make up.” “Not to write treatises on abstract questions, or deliver moralizing little sermons…” “For stoicism under the empire, the most important sources are the works of Seneca the Younger and Epictetus.” “Like other late Stoics (Seneca is a notable example), he was willing to accept truth wherever he found it.” “They are like this,” Marcus says of other people, “because they can’t tell good from evil”. “Logos: On a cosmic level it is the rational principle that governs the organization of the universe.”
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