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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 37m

“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 2h

🧘 Insight from Epictetus: “We must not believe the many who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 5h

“So other people hurt me? That's their problem. Their character and actions are not mine.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 6h

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Don’t try to picture everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand, and ask, “Why is this so unbearable?

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 7h

🌿 Stillness in Epictetus's words: “Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 9h

“Only the educated are free.” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 12h

🌀 Perspective from Marcus Aurelius: “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 14h

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Why does that upset you? Do you think falsehood is less powerful than bile or a rabid dog?

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 19h

“We cannot know for certain where death awaits us, so let us expect it everywhere. Preparing for death is preparing for freedom. Those who have learned to die have unlearned to live in servitude.” – Montaigne #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 22h

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations To see things as they are and treat them as they deserve. Don’t overlook this innate ability.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🧘 Insight from Montaigne: “I make no doubt but that I often happen to speak of things that are much better and more truly handled by those who are masters of the trade.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“I do what is mine to do; the rest doesn’t disturb me. The rest is inanimate, or has no logos, or it wanders at random and has lost the road.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Except conscious of it. Because it’s characteristic of social beings that they see themselves as acting socially.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🗣️ In the words of Marcus Aurelius: “Think how much is going on inside you every second—in your soul, in your body. Why should it astonish you that so much more—everything that happens in that all-embracing unity, the world—is happening at the same time?”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🌿 Stillness in Marcus Aurelius's words: “So other people hurt me? That's their problem. Their character and actions are not mine.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations It doesn’t frighten itself into desires. If other things can scare or hurt it, let them; it won’t go down that road on the basis of its own perceptions.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Consider what the spirit is: air, and never the same air, but vomited out and gulped in again every instant. Finally, the intelligence.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.” – Napoleon Bonaparte #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

💡 Reflection by Seneca: “As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations The motion of virtue is different—deeper. It moves at a steady pace on a road hard to discern, and always forward.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🧘 Insight from Epictetus: “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🌀 Perspective from Epictetus: “Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Can still consider what it’s to my benefit to do. And what benefits anyone is to do what his own nature requires.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations You’ve wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🧭 Guidance by Epictetus: “To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“I do what is mine to do; the rest doesn’t disturb me. The rest is inanimate, or has no logos, or it wanders at random and has lost the road.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Remember that what pulls the strings is within—hidden from us. Is speech, is life, is the person.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🧱 Foundation from Marcus Aurelius: “Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

📖 Teachings of Marcus Aurelius: “Change and flux constantly remake the world, just as the incessant progression of time remakes eternity.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Remember that to change your mind and to accept correction are free acts too. The action is yours, based on your own will, your own decision—and your own mind.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Now they see you as a beast, a monkey. But in a week they’ll think you’re a god—if you rediscover your beliefs and honor the logos.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Don't be overheard complaining to anyone, even yourself.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🌿 Stillness in Horace's words: “With such short lives, why do we pull in so many directions?”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“A stooped and hunched body has less strength to carry a burden. The same goes for our soul. It should be raised to stand against this adversary.” – Montaigne #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Nothing that can happen is unusual or unnatural, and there’s no sense in complaining. Nature does not make us endure the unendurable.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🧱 Foundation from Seneca: “The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🌀 Perspective from Zeno: “Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations To the stand-bys above, add this one: always to define whatever it is we perceive—to trace its outline—so we can see what it really is: its substance. Stripped bare.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Don't be overheard complaining to anyone, even yourself.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations The world is maintained by change—in the elements and in the things they compose. That should be enough for you; treat it as an axiom.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.” – Napoleon Bonaparte #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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