Quotes from the Forum

🧘 Insight from Epictetus:

“God save me from fools with a little philosophy—no one is more difficult to reach.”

📖 Teachings of Epictetus:

“Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not those whom you are in the habit of saying are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?”

⏳ Timeless insight by Marcus Aurelius:

“Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter.”

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🏛️Roman History📜: 1571 AD – The Battle of Lepanto is fought on October 7.

💡 Reflection by Epictetus:

“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”

🗣️ In the words of Marcus Tullius Cicero:

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

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🧱 Foundation from Epictetus:

“To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education.”

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🧘 Insight from Marcus Aurelius:

“If you’ve seen the present, then you’ve seen everything—as it’s been since the beginning, as it will be forever. The same substance, the same form. All of it.”

100% on the mark. Cheers!

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🏛️Roman History📜: 105 BC – The Cimbri and Teutones inflict a devastating defeat on Rome at the Battle of Arausio (modern Orange) on October 6.

🏛️ Philosophy from Seneca:

“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”

🧱 Foundation from Marcus Aurelius:

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

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🌿 Stillness in Marcus Aurelius's words:

“Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both. They were absorbed alike into the life force of the world, or dissolved alike into atoms.”

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🌿 Stillness in Epictetus's words:

“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”

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🏛️Roman History📜: 105 AD – Ts’ai Lun (Cai Lun), a eunuch in the Chinese Han court, invents a form of paper around this year.

🌀 Perspective from Zeno:

“Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing.”

🧭 Guidance by Epictetus:

“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”

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⏳ Timeless insight by Marcus Aurelius:

“If you’ve seen the present, then you’ve seen everything—as it’s been since the beginning, as it will be forever. The same substance, the same form. All of it.”