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Saturday, April 13, 2024

Stoic Snippets 236


Let it not be in any man's power to say truly of you that you are not simple or that you are not good; but let him be a liar whoever shall think anything of this kind about you; and this is altogether in your power. 

For who is he that shall hinder you from being good and simple? 

Do you only determine to live no longer unless you shall be such. For neither does reason allow you to live, if you are not such. 

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 10.32 

IMAGE: Jean Geoffroy, The Prayer of the Humble (1893) 



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