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- Marcus Aurelius Quote
“Say to yourself first thing in the morning: today I might meet with people who are meddling, ungrateful, aggressive, treacherous, malicious and unsocial. All this has afflicted them through their ignorance of true good and evil. But I have seen that...
- Marcus Aurelius Quote
“Be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal; and in a little time thou wilt be nobody and nowhere, like Hadrian and Augustus. In the next place having fixed thy eyes steadily on thy business look at it, and at the...
- William B. Irvine: Older And Wiser: Ancient Advice On Aging Well
Professor Irvine comes on around the 7-minute mark. His new book, A Slap in the Face: Why Insults Hurt--And Why They Shouldn't, that was mentioned towards the end of the talk comes out in February. William B. Irvine: Older and Wiser: Ancient...
- Nassim Taleb On Stoics And Stoicism
From Fooled by Randomness:"Having control over randomness can be expressed in the manner in which one acts in the small and the large. Recall that epic heroes were judged by their actions, not by the results. No matter how sophisticated our choices, how...
- Tim Ferriss - Google Io Ignite - Practical Pessimism
Link Related Tim Ferriss links: Book - The 4-Hour Workweek Stoicism 101: A Practical Guide for Entrepreneurs On The Shortness of Life: An Introduction to Seneca Related previous post: The Wisdom of the Stoics: Selections from Seneca, Epictetus, and...
Money and Finance
Marcus Aurelius quote
“There is one type of person who, whenever he has done a good deed to another, expects and calculates to have the favour repaid. There is a second type of person who does not calculate in such a way but who, nevertheless, deep within himself regards the other person as someone who owes him something and he remembers that he has done the other a good deed.
But there is a third type of person who, in some sense, does not even remember the good deed he has done but who, instead, is like a vine producing its grape, seeking nothing more than having brought forth its own fruit, just like a horse when it has run, a dog when it has followed its scent and a bee when it has made honey. This man, having done one good deed well, does not shout it about but simply turns his attention to the next good deed, just like the vine turns once again to produce its grape in the right season.” -Marcus Aurelius (Source)
- Marcus Aurelius Quote
“Say to yourself first thing in the morning: today I might meet with people who are meddling, ungrateful, aggressive, treacherous, malicious and unsocial. All this has afflicted them through their ignorance of true good and evil. But I have seen that...
- Marcus Aurelius Quote
“Be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal; and in a little time thou wilt be nobody and nowhere, like Hadrian and Augustus. In the next place having fixed thy eyes steadily on thy business look at it, and at the...
- William B. Irvine: Older And Wiser: Ancient Advice On Aging Well
Professor Irvine comes on around the 7-minute mark. His new book, A Slap in the Face: Why Insults Hurt--And Why They Shouldn't, that was mentioned towards the end of the talk comes out in February. William B. Irvine: Older and Wiser: Ancient...
- Nassim Taleb On Stoics And Stoicism
From Fooled by Randomness:"Having control over randomness can be expressed in the manner in which one acts in the small and the large. Recall that epic heroes were judged by their actions, not by the results. No matter how sophisticated our choices, how...
- Tim Ferriss - Google Io Ignite - Practical Pessimism
Link Related Tim Ferriss links: Book - The 4-Hour Workweek Stoicism 101: A Practical Guide for Entrepreneurs On The Shortness of Life: An Introduction to Seneca Related previous post: The Wisdom of the Stoics: Selections from Seneca, Epictetus, and...