Hurry to your ruling reason, to the reason of the Whole, and to your neighbor's. To your own mind to make it just; to the mind of the Whole to remember your place in it; and to your neighbor's mind to learn weather it's ignorant or or sound knowledge - while recognizing it's like yours.
—Marcus Aurelius, 9.22(resource) Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.
How does your ruling reason manage itself? For in that is the key to everything. Whatever else remains, be it the power of your choice or not, is but a corpse and smoke.
—Marcus Aurelius,Meditations,12.38(resource) Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance and Art of Living
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Hurry to your ruling reason, to the reason of the Whole, and to your neighbor's. To your own mind to make it just; to the mind of the Whole to remember your place in it; and to your neighbor's mind to learn weather it's ignorant or or sound knowledge - while recognizing it's like yours. —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 9.22
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
When the standards have been set, things are tested and weighed. And the work of philosophy is just this, to examine and uphold the standards, but the work of a truly good person is in using those standards when they know them. — Epictetus, Discourses, 2.11.23-25
