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Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Stoic Snippets 121


Happiness is a good spirit, or a good thing. 

What then are you doing here, O imagination? 

Go away, I entreat you by the gods, as you did come, for I want you not. 

But you have come according to your old fashion. I am not angry with you: only go away.

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.17

IMAGE: Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare (1781)



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