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Friday, August 8, 2025

Stoic Snippets 268


In the application of your principles you must be like the pancratiast, not like the gladiator; for the gladiator lets fall the sword which he uses and is killed; but the other always has his hand, and needs to do nothing else than use it. 

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 12.9 



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