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Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Stoic Snippets 215


What are these men's leading principles, and about what kind of things are they busy, and for what kind of reasons do they love and honor? 

Imagine that you see their poor souls laid bare. When they think that they do harm by their blame or good by their praise, what an idea! 

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.34 

IMAGE: John William Waterhouse, Cleopatra (1888) 



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