#Roman Stoic

[tmarshconnors]

"You could die right now. Let this fact guide the rest of your life."

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 AD and a Stoic philosopher. 

[arabdoll]

“What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.”

Seneca

[simpleman193]

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

“Accept death in a cheerful spirit, as nothing but the dissolution of the elements from which each living thing is composed. If it doesn't hurt the individual elements to change continually into one another, why are people afraid of all of them changing and separating? It's a natural thing. And nothing natural is evil.” - Marcus Aurelius

[ancientcharm]

"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones." -Marcus Aurelius

A Stoic Heart: The Found Letters of a Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, the Author of Meditations, to His Son, Lucius Commodus, on the Art of Mastering Life's , Grace and Stoicism. Vol. I by Andrii Datsenko

[illustratus]

The Death of Seneca by Manuel Domínguez Sánchez

[lumi-waxes-poetic]

“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune's control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”

—Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[yorgunherakles]

bir insanı, temsil ettiği şeyler nedeniyle değerli bulmanın anlamsızlığı...

epiktetos - söylevler

[sienyaa]

The Death of Seneca, Manuel Domínguez Sánchez, 1871.

This large painting depicts the suicide of the Stoic philosopher Seneca, after his condemnation by Nero. His friends grieve over his body. The figure in red was universally praised for Sánchez's use of foreshortening and the depiction of emotion without facial expression. It's featured in the Museo Nacional del Prado. It's one of my dream paintings to see in person.

[stoicheadaurelius]

Uncover Seneca's Timeless Wisdom on Friendship and Aging

Most Thought-Provoking Stoic Insights from Timeless "Moral Letters to Lucilius" by Seneca on Old age, Philosophy and Friendship to help you get more stoic and solid against most crucial of the life hardships: "As we hate solitude and crave society, as nature draws men to each other, so in this matter also there is an attraction which makes us desirous of friendship. Nevertheless, though the sage may love his friends dearly, often comparing them with himself, and putting them ahead of himself, yet all the good will be limited to his own being, and he will speak the words which were spoken by the very Stilbo whom Epicurus criticizes in his letter. For Stilbo, after his country was captured and his children and his wife lost, as he emerged from the general desolation alone and yet happy, spoke as follows to Demetrius, called Sacker of Cities because of the destruction he brought upon them, in answer to the question whether he had lost anything: "I have all my goods with me!" There is a brave and stout-hearted man for you! The enemy conquered, but Stilbo conquered his conqueror. "I have lost nothing!" Aye, he forced Demetrius to wonder whether he himself had conquered after all. "My goods are all with me!" In other words, he deemed nothing that might be taken from him to be a good. ... But you must not think that our school alone can utter noble words; Epicurus himself, the reviler of Stilbo, spoke similar language; put it down to my credit, though I have already wiped out my debt for the present day. He says: "Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the whole world." Or, if the following seems to you a more suitable phrase, – for we must try to render the meaning and not the mere words: "A man may rule the world and still be unhappy, if he does not feel that he is supremely happy." (c) Seneca, "Moral Letters to Lucilius". 

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[voltttmeter]

roman after that stupid fight he got into (as in sort of a follow-up to this)

[museeeuuuum]

Thought I'd treat yall and release this video a few days early! Today, a guest and I dive into the recent TikTok trend where men apparently think about ancient Rome at least once a day! Can an entire academic study be boiled down to a gender binary? What does Russel Crowe and Stoicism have to do with it?

[oldwitchyblog]

". . . one, that things do not take hold upon the mind, but stand without unmoved, and that disturbances come only from the judgement within; second, that all that your eyes behold will change in a moment and be no more; and of how many things you have already witnessed the changes, think continually of that. The Universe is change, life is opinion." -Marcus Aurelius, 4.3

[where-are-the-spooky-gays-2]

Do you think they share the same vibes?

I think they both share a bit of the same vibes they're both caring of the ones they love and are very protective

[mayskaiss]

[andreai04]

You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.

If it doesn’t harm your character, how can it harm your life?

People try to get away from it all—to the country, to the beach, to the mountains. You always wish that you could too. Which is idiotic: you can get away from it anytime you like.

By going within.

Nowhere you can go is more peaceful—more free of interruptions—than your own soul.

The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think, or do. Only what you do.

Is an emerald suddenly flawed if no one admires it?

Ask yourself at every moment, “Is this necessary?”

Consider the abyss of time past, the infinite future. Three days of life or three generations: what's the difference?

The impediment to action advances action.

What stands in the way becomes the way.

How many unkind people have you been kind to?

Wait for it patiently—annihilation or metamorphosis.

Fight to be the person philosophy tried to make you.

You accept the limits placed on your body. Accept those placed on your time.

You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live.

You want praise from people who kick themselves every fifteen minutes, the approval of people who despise themselves. (Is it a sign of self-respect to regret nearly everything you do?)