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November 7th: How to be powerful

Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

Don't trust in your reputation, money, or position, but in the strength that is yours — namely, your judgments about the things that you control. For this alone is what makes us free and unfettered, that picks us up by the neck from the depths and lifts us eye to eye with the rich and powerful. — Epictetus, Discourses, 3.26.34-35

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September 28th: You hold the trump card

Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

How appropriate that the gods put under our control only the most powerful ability that govern all the rest — the ability to make the right use of external appearances — and that they didn't put anything else under our control. Was this simply because they weren't willing to give us more? I think if it had been possible they would have given us more, but it was impossible. — Epictetus, Discourses 1.1.7-8

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November 6th: Someone else is spinning the thread

Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

If the breaking day sees someone proud, The ending day sees them brought low. No one should put too much trust in triumph, No one should give up hope of trials improving. Clotho mixes one with the other and stops. Fortune from resting spinning every fate around. No one has had so much divine favor. that they could guarantee themselves tomorrow. God keeps our lives hurtling on, Spinning in a whirlwind. — Seneca, Thyestes, 613

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