Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Some people with exceptional minds quickly grasp virtue, or produce it within themselves. But other dim and lazy types, hindered by bad habits, must have their rusty souls constantly scrubbed down... The weaker sorts will be helped and lifted from their bad opinions if we put them in the care of philosophy's principles.— Seneca, Moral Letters, 95.36-37
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
The person who has practiced philosophy as a cure for the self becomes great of soul, filled with confidence, invincible — and greater as you draw near. — Seneca, Moral Letters, 111.2
February 27th: Cultivating indifference where other grow passion
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Of all the things that are, some are good, others bad, and yet others indifferent. The good are virtues and all that share in them; the bad are the vices and all that indulge them; the indifferent lie in between virtue and vice and include wealth, health, life, death, pleasure and pain. — Epictetus, Discourses, 2.19.12b-13
[Satan] has always hated the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, it is consistent with his character; for he is a liar and the father of lies. [John 8:31-58]
