The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Monday, May 15, 2023

Stoic Snippets 196


Wipe out imagination. 

Check desire. 

Extinguish appetite. 

Keep the ruling faculty in its own power. 

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.7 

IMAGE: Gregorio Lazzarini, Reason Ordering Temperance to Restrain Avarice (1723) 



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