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thoughtkick · 3 days

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Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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thoodleoo · 6 months

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reading a quote from marcus aurelius's meditations to my middle school students at the start of every class has been one of the best decisions i ever made as a teacher, partly because it exposes them to ancient literature but mostly because now i have a bunch of twelve year olds who talk like this

#tagamemnon #marcus aurelius #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra

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ratective · 8 months

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garnet is the only one who will try to argue with a philosopher that literally shares her philosophy if shes bored (she really loves winning arguments)

#rat noises #steven universe #su #garnet #su pearl #su garnet #pearl #rose quartz #amethyst #su amethyst #historical gems #marcus aurelius #shhh shut up idc what different variants of stoicism they both believe. this is irrelevant information!! i m going to eat a pudding

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surqrised · 26 days

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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Marcus Aurelius

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cinematic-literature · 4 months

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The Holdovers (2023) by Alexander Payne

Book title: Meditations (Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν in Ancient Greek; 180 A.D.) by Marcus Aurelius

#books in movies #latin literature #the holdovers #paul giamatti #dominic sessa #alexander payne #da'vine joy randolph #meditations #marcus aurelius

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perfectquote · 1 month

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Very little is needed to make a happy life: it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

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dduane · 9 months

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Via old friend @ellenkushner 's Twitter account, with the notation "Not mine, but now yours and you are very welcome." :)

#Marcus Aurelius #gets you off the hook

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philosophybits · 6 months

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How to act: Never under compulsion, out of selfishness, without forethought, with misgivings. Don't gussy up your thoughts. No surplus words or unnecessary actions... Cheerfulness. Without requiring other people's help. Or serenity supplied by others. To stand up straight — not straightened.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (3.5)

#philosophy #quotes #Marcus Aurelius #Meditations #actions #choices #speech #cheerfulness #independence #virtue #ethics #stoicism

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lionofchaeronea · 14 days

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Human beings exist for the sake of one another: so, either teach them or endure them. Οἱ ἄνθρωποι γεγόνασιν ἀλλήλων ἕνεκεν: ἢ δίδασκε οὖν ἢ φέρε. --Marcus Aurelius, Meditations VIII.59

#quote #quotes #classics #tagamemnon #Marcus Aurelius #Meditations #philosophy #ancient philosophy #Stoicism #Greek #Greek language #Greek translation #Ancient Greek #Ancient Greek language #Ancient Greek translation

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sonandheirofnothinginparticular · 1 month

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#marcus aurelius #stoicism #philosophy

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thoughtkick · 5 months

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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Marcus Aurelius

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entheognosis · 2 months

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Do not live as if you have ten thousand years left. Your fate hangs over you while you are still living. While you still exist on this Earth, strive to become a genuinely great person. The purpose of your life is not to do as the majority does but to live according to the inner law which you understand in yourself. Do not act against your conscience or against truth; live like this, and you will fulfill the task of your life.

MARCUS AURELIUS

Meditations Among the Tombs

by William Blake

#marcus aurelius

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thoodleoo · 26 days

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6th grade is probably my favorite grade to teach because they're the perfect combination of relatively enthusiastic and "just now starting to learn not to take things too seriously" without typically getting "too cool" for anything we do. as a result they're the best kids to read marcus aurelius to because they still think it's fun and will quiet down for it while also finding some of the things marcus aurelius says amusing. the best part about it though is that if i accidentally get distracted and forget to give them their dose of 2nd century CE stoic philosophy they call me out on it because they really want to hear what he has to say

what im saying is the other day in class i may have had a small group of 11-12 year olds yelling "WHAT ABOUT MARCUS" at me because i forgot to read them a passage from the meditations at the start of class

#tagamemnon #marcus aurelius #sarah teaches latin #probably the best teaching decision of my life to start out class with marcus #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra

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thehopefulquotes · 3 months

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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Marcus Aurelius

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perfectfeelings · 4 months

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When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Marcus Aurelius

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quotefeeling · 4 months

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When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Marcus Aurelius

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