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Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Stoic Snippets 217


Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks! 

Why are you disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles you? 

Is it the form of the thing? Look at it. Or is it the matter? Look at it. But besides these there is nothing. 

Towards the gods then, now become at last more simple and better. It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three. 

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.37 



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