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15 We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. 2 Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up.
[Romans 15:1-2]
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May 25th: Where to find joy
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Joy for human beings lies in proper human work. And proper human work consists in: acts of kindness to other human beings, disdain for the stirrings of the senses, identifying trustworthy impressions, and contemplating the natural order and all that happens in keeping with it. ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.26
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July 2nd: On duty and circumstance
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Never shirk the proper dispatch of your duty, no matter if you are freezing or hot, groggy or well-rested, vilified or praised, not even if dying or pressed by other demands. Even dying is one of the important assignments of life and, in this as in all else, make the most of your resources to do well the duty at hand — Marcus Aurelius, 6.2
Nothing will ever befall me that I will receive with gloom or a bad disposition. I will pay my taxes gladly. Now, all the things which cause complaint or dread are like the taxes of life- things from which, my dear Lucilius, you should never hope for exemption or seek escape.
—Seneca, Moral Letters, 96.2 (resource), Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
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August 18th: Only fools rush in
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
A good person is invincible, for they don't rush into contests in which they aren't the strongest. If you want their property, take it — take also their staff, profession, and body. But you will never compel what they set out for, nor trap them in what they would avoid. For the only contest the good person enters is that of their own reasoned choice. How can such a person not be invincible? — Epictetus, Discourses, 3.6.5-7
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October 16th: Spread the word
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