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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 1h

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations As if your eyes expected a reward for seeing, or your feet for walking. That’s what they were made for.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 3h

“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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

🏛️ Philosophy from Epictetus: “Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 8h

“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 · 9h

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations The logos and its employment are forces sufficient for themselves and for their works. They start from their own beginning, they proceed to the appointed end.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 10h

🧘 Insight from Marcus Aurelius: “If you’ve seen the present, then you’ve seen everything—as it’s been since the beginning, as it will be forever. The same substance, the same form. All of it.”

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

“Death is our journey’s destination, the object on which we must set our sights. If it frightens us, how can we take a single step forward and not be worried sick?” – Montaigne #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 15h

🗣️ In the words of Epictetus: “Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfect suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily?”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 17h

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Continual awareness of all time and space, of the size and life span of the things around us. A grape seed in infinite space.

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

“Look inward. Don’t let the true nature or value of anything elude you.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Everything’s destiny is to change, to be transformed, to perish. So that new things can be born.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

“Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms — you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

🔥 Enduring wisdom from Epictetus: “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

“Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms — you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of all those applauding hands.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

🏛️ Philosophy from Epictetus: “No man is free who is not master of himself.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

“Two elements must therefore be rooted out once and for all, – the fear of future suffering, and the recollection of past suffering; since the latter no longer concerns me, and the former concerns me not yet.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

🕊️ Calm wisdom from Seneca: “A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations What did they gain by dying old? In the end, they all sleep six feet under—Caedicianus, Fabius, Julian, Lepidus, and all the rest.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Do external things distract you? Then make time for yourself to learn something worthwhile; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

🕊️ Calm wisdom from Marcus Aurelius: “The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“And life itself: like the decoction of blood, the drawing in of air. We expel the power of breathing we drew in at birth (just yesterday or the day before), breathing it out like the air we exhale at each moment.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations MY MOTHER Her reverence for the divine, her generosity, her inability not only to do wrong but even to conceive of doing it.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

📖 Teachings of Marcus Aurelius: “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.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

💡 Reflection by Cicero: “The entire life of philosophers is indeed a study of death.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations People try to get away from it all—to the country, to the beach, to the mountains. You always wish that you could too.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing.” – Zeno #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Much of our bad behavior stems from trying to apply those criteria. If we limited “good” and “bad” to our own actions, we’d have no call to challenge God, or to treat other people as enemies.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

🌿 Stillness in Epictetus's words: “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations He deposits his sperm and leaves. And then a force not his takes it and goes to work, and creates a child.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

🧘 Insight from Seneca: “A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

🕊️ Calm wisdom from Montaigne: “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.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations The same thing happens to other people, and they weather it unharmed —out of sheer obliviousness or because they want to display “character.” Is wisdom really so much weaker than ignorance and vanity?

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“The man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small—small as the corner of the earth in which we live it.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

📖 Teachings of Zeno: “A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Book 8 1. Another encouragement to humility: you can’t claim to have lived your life as a philosopher—not even your whole adulthood.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

🗣️ In the words of Epictetus: “The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“Look inward. Don’t let the true nature or value of anything elude you.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

🗣️ In the words of Seneca: “The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations The mind is the ruler of the soul. It should remain unstirred by agitations of the flesh—gentle and violent ones alike.

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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom

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