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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 8h

Accept what you cannot control, and you will discover how much control was inside you all along. #stoicism #philosophy

Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 22h

"Look within. Let neither the peculiar quality of anything nor its value escape thee." Meditations 6.3 #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Strength is not the ability to push through. It is the ability to pause and choose your response. #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What nature requires of you today is plain enough. Do that, and leave the question of greatness to those who have time to waste on it. #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The morning belongs to the person who chose sleep wisely the night before. Discipline begins the evening before it is tested. #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Today I have got out of all trouble, or rather I have cast out all trouble. For it was not outside, but within, in my opinions." Meditations 9.13 #stoicism #philosophy

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The Confessions of Ira Short @irashort.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

... or as some old English dude put it, "To thine own self be true" 🌎🕊️

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Throw away the thought of how thou shalt seem to others, and be content if thou shalt live the rest of thy life, however short, as thy nature wills." Meditations 8.1 #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Do not curse the obstacle. Study it. It is the day's instructor, sent to teach the exact lesson you have been avoiding. #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Small disciplines, repeated daily, create results that no amount of ambition can match. #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The mind untrained drifts toward grievance the way a boat untied drifts toward the rocks. Tie your mind each morning to a useful task. #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Cast away opinion, and thou art saved. Who then hinders thee from casting it away?" Meditations 12.25 #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A grudge is a stone you carry to throw at someone who has already walked on. Set it down. The road is lighter without it. #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I remind myself each morning: I will not live forever. I will not be remembered for long. And yet today still matters. That is the paradox to live inside. #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You do not need the day to be kind. You need only to meet it as a human being should. The rest is weather. #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Men seek retreats for themselves: houses in the country, seashores, mountains. But it is in thy power to retire into thyself whenever thou wilt." Meditations 4.3 #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You are a citizen of a great city, the world. Act for its common good, and your small life is joined to something that does not end with you. #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"How quickly all things disappear: in the universe the bodies themselves, but in time the remembrance of them." Meditations 2.12 #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks." Meditations #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then, or bear with them." Meditations 8.59 #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You will not be tested by the easy days. Build your character on the easy days so that the hard ones find it already standing. #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The task before you is small. Do it well. Then the next small task. A life is built this way, and only this way. #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A life lived inside your own values, even quietly, is a more powerful example than a life lived loudly inside someone else's. #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, and do so with all your heart." Meditations #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The hardest person to govern is yourself. If you cannot do that, you cannot govern anything else well either. #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them." Meditations #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Want what you have before you reach for what you lack, and you will find you were richer than you knew. #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Do not mistake busyness for virtue. A busy life is only noble if the tasks are worthy and the intention is clean. #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." Meditations #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When you cannot change the situation, you are being invited to change yourself. Accept the invitation. It is the only one always open. #stoicism #philosophy

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Lee Elliot 🌍 @interactions247.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"No man learnt anything on a calm sea." ⛵

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Xavier Torch @xaviertorch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I dunno about this one. Most of the people who caused me the most pain were simply psychopaths who took pleasure from hurting others. They weren't abused children, or neglected or starving. Just entitled, middle class assholes who had never learned empathy.

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The Confessions of Ira Short @irashort.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This morning I told a friend, "Unhappy people get their joy from making others unhappy." Understanding is not forgiveness, but it is its doorway.

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The wise do not seek a life without storms. They build a vessel that can sail through them. Build your vessel daily. #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have learned that the people who hurt me most often were themselves hurt. This does not excuse them. It only explains them. Understanding is not forgiveness, but it is its doorway. #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You are not responsible for the chaos around you. You are responsible for the order within you. #stoicism #philosophy

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A. Rivera @bloodravenlib.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Oh so true.

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The wise are slow to speak not because they have nothing to say, but because they have learned how many words were not worth saying. #stoicism #philosophy

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The Confessions of Ira Short @irashort.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

With thanks to those who have let me borrow theirs while I searched. 💫

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I am tired today. I do the work anyway. Tiredness is not a verdict. It is only a feeling, and feelings are weather. #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When others lose their composure, let yours become the steadiness they borrow until they find their own again. #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"We are all working together to one end, some with knowledge and design, and others without knowing what they do." Meditations 6.42 #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Throw away thy idle hopes, and come to thine own aid, if thou carest at all for thyself, while it is yet in thy power." Meditations 3.14 #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does, but only at what he himself is doing, that it may be just and pure." Meditations 4.18 #stoicism #philosophy

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Xavier Torch @xaviertorch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

That sounds like something he must have written near the end of his life. He was looking at the rest of the Senators trying to ruin Rome with their greed and he was like, "These guys, though!"

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When you have done your part, rest without guilt. The outcome was never yours to carry, only the effort. #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such." Meditations 10.16 #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect." Meditations #stoicism #philosophy

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Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear." Meditations 5.18 #stoicism #philosophy

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