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Sunday, June 23, 2024

Stoic Snippets 243


As those who try to stand in your way when you are proceeding according to right reason will not be able to turn you aside from your proper action, so neither let them drive you from your benevolent feelings toward them, but be on your guard equally in both matters, not only in the matter of steady judgment and action, but also in the matter of gentleness to those who try to hinder or otherwise trouble you. 

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 11.9 

IMAGE: Charles Spencelayh, That Damned Cat (c. 1920) 



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