The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Stoic Snippets 174


If you take away your opinion about that which appears to give you pain, you yourself stand in perfect security. 

"Who is this self?"

The reason. 

"But I am not reason." 

Be it so. Let then the reason itself not trouble itself. But if any other part of you suffers, let it have its own opinion about itself. 

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.40 



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