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🏛️Roman History📜: 1236 AD – The Mongols under Batu Khan and Subutai destroy the Volga Bulgars’ capital Bilär.

🕊️ Calm wisdom from Epictetus: “Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”

⏳ Timeless insight by Seneca: “Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”

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💡 Reflection by Marcus Aurelius: “Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”

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🧭 Guidance by Seneca: “Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”

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🏛️Roman History📜: 19 BC – The Roman poet Virgil dies in Brundisium on September 21.

🧱 Foundation from Marcus Aurelius: “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.”

💡 Reflection by Marcus Tullius Cicero: “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

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🌿 Stillness in Epictetus's words: “The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.”

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🔥 Enduring wisdom from Marcus Aurelius: “Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”

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🏛️Roman History📜: 451 AD – The Council of Chalcedon opens on October 8 (preparations by September 20 are in place under Emperor Marcian).

📖 Teachings of Lao Tzu: “If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.”

🧭 Guidance by Montaigne: “And if you have lived a day, you have seen everything. One day equals any other day. There is no other daytime, no other nighttime. This sun, this moon, these stars, this constellation, they are the very same ones your ancestors enjoyed and the same ones that will sustain

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⏳ Timeless insight by Lao Tzu: “If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.”

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📖 Teachings of Lao Tzu: “In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.”

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🏛️Roman History📜: 86 AD – The Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater) is completed and officially dedicated in Rome under Emperor Domitian, with additional festivities.

🧱 Foundation from Seneca: “Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”

🧱 Foundation from Seneca: “The man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive.”

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🔥 Enduring wisdom from Montaigne: “And the ivy grows best spontaneously, the arbutus best in solitary caves; and the birds sing more sweetly without art.”

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🌀 Perspective from Marcus Aurelius: “When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

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🏛️Roman History📜: 96 AD – Emperor Domitian is assassinated in a palace conspiracy on September 18, ending the Flavian dynasty.

🏛️ Philosophy from Epictetus: “Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire.”

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

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⏳ Timeless insight by Seneca: “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

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🌿 Stillness in Lao Tzu's words: “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

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🏛️Roman History📜: 456 AD – The Western Roman general Ricimer defeats and kills the Suevic King Rechiar at the Battle of the Orbigo (near Astorga in Spain) on October 5.

🗣️ In the words of Montaigne: “And the ivy grows best spontaneously, the arbutus best in solitary caves; and the birds sing more sweetly without art.”

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🧱 Foundation from Emperor Augustus: “Make haste slowly.”