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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Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
For even peace itself will supply more reason to worry. Not even safe circumstances will bring you confidence once your mind has been shocked — once it get in the habit of blind panic, it can't provide for its own safety. For it doesn't really avoid danger, it just runs away. Yet we are exposed to greater danger with our backs turned. — Seneca, Moral Letters, 104.10b
12 You are always righteous, Lord, when I bring a case before you. Yet I would speak with you about your justice: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
Everything happens for a reason; for every effect there is a specific cause
The Law of Cause and Effect
Aristotle asserted that we live in a world governed by law, not chance. He stated that everything happens for a reason, whether or not we know what it is. He said that every effect has a specific cause or causes. Every cause or action has an effect of some kind, whether we like it or not.
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
But what is philosophy? Doesn't it simply mean preparing ourselves for what may come? Don't you understand that really amounts to saying that if I would so prepare myself to endure, then let anything happen that will? Otherwise, it would be like the boxer exiting the ring because he took some punches. Actually, you can leave the boxing ring without consequence, but what advantage would come from abandoning the pursuit of wisdom? So, what should each of us say to every trial we face? This is what I've trained for, for this my discipline! ~Epictetus, Discourses, 3.10.6-7
