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Author of A Stoic Breviary: Classical Wisdom in Daily Practice stoicbreviary.substack.com
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Jean Delville, Prometheus (1907)
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Jean Delville, The School of Plato (1898)
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Fortune makes many loans, but gives no presents. —Publilius Syrus
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Cicero, Stoic Paradoxes 3.3
You borrow, says one, these views from philosophers. I was afraid you would have told me that I borrowed it from panderers. But Socrates ...
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Moral Letters 38.2
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Comes the Inquisitor
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Jean Delville, Satan's Treasures (1895)
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Moral Letters 38.1
Reflections on Seneca
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Jean Delville, The Oblivion of Passions (1913)
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Whether memoirs are written by masters of servants, or by servants of masters, the processes always meet. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe IMAGE: Nicolaes Maes, The Idle Servant (1655)
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Cicero, Stoic Paradoxes 3.2
Will any man call a person honest, who, having a deposit of ten pounds of gold made to him without any witness, so that he might take advant...
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Moral Letters 37.2
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Γυναικὸς ἄρχε Lead your wife —Delphic Maxims 95 IMAGE: Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait (1434)
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Cicero, Stoic Paradoxes 3.1
Paradox 3: That All Misdeeds Are in Themselves Equal, and Good Deeds the Same The matter it may be said is a trifle, but the crime is en...
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Moral Letters 37.1
Reflections on Seneca
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Howard Jones, Dream into Action 8
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Shigeru Aoki, Destiny (1904)
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Mora Letters 36.6
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Moral Letters 36.6
Reflections on Seneca
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Cicero, Stoic Paradoxes 2.2
Do you threaten me with death, which is separating me from mankind? Or with exile, which is removing me from the wicked? Death is dreadfu...
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Nicolas Beatrizet, The Triumph of Marcus Aurelius (1550)
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Him I call indeed a Brahmana who, after leaving all bondage to men, has risen above all bondage to the gods, and is free from all and every bondage. —Dhammapada 417 IMAGE: Shigeru Aoki, Escape from the Land of the Dead (1903)
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Moral Letters 36.5
Reflections on Seneca
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Cicero, Stoic Paradoxes 2.1
Never, for my part, did I imagine Marcus Regulus to have been distressed, or unhappy, or wretched; because his magnanimity was not tortured ...
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Moral Letters 36.4
Reflections on Seneca
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John William Waterhouse, Miranda (1916)
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Leopold Schulz, Gothic Church Ruins on the Mediterranean (1842)
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Ligier Richier, Tomb of René of Chalon (1547)
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Michiel Sweerts, Self-portrait with a Skull (c. 1660)
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Moral Letters 36.3
Reflections on Seneca
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When the edifice of our Fortune is but slightly fractured, a chasm opens through the whole. —Publilius Syrus
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If a man spreads my failings abroad, he is my master, even though he were my servant. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Cicero, Stoic Paradoxes 1.3
Now let the deriders of this sentiment and principle come forward; let even them take their choice, whether they would rather resemble the m...
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William Hogarth, Four Times of the Day 4
A Stoic Breviary
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Moral Letters 36.2
Reflections on Seneca
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Υἱοῖς μὴ καταρῶ Do not curse your sons —Delphic Maxims IMAGE: Henry Fuseli, Oedipus Cursing His Son Polynices (1786)
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Cicero, Stoic Paradoxes 1.2
But these matters, when they are more loosely discussed, appear somewhat obscure; but those things which seemed to be discussed with more su...
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Moral Letters 36.1
Reflections on Seneca
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