Friday, April 4th 2025
Treat what you don’t have as nonexistent. Look at what you have, the things you value most, and think of how much you’d crave them if you didn’t have them. But be careful. Don’t feel such satisfaction that you start to overvalue them —that it would upset you to lose them.
— Book 7, Note 27
Meditations, By Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius Antoninus was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 AD and a Stoic philosopher. He was the last of the rulers known, noncontemporaneously, as the Five Good Emperors and the last emperor of the Pax Romana, an age of relative peace, calmness and stability for the Roman Empire lasting from 27 BC to 180 AD. Meditations is a series of his personal writings, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy. He wrote the 12 books of the Meditations in Koine Greek as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement.
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