This note is a part of my Zettelkasten. What is below might not be complete or accurate. It is also likely to change often.
20th July, 2020

Stoicism

Marcus Aurelius

  • When you awake in the morning, think of what privilege it is to be alive, to think, to dream, to love
  • You dont have to turn this into something. You dont have to get upset.
  • Be indifferent to what makes no difference
  • Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is to smile back.
  • Sometimes even to live is an act of courage
  • Man's true delight is to do the things he was made for

Seneca

  • He suffers more than necessary, he suffers before its necessary
  • Its not the man who has too little, its the man who wants more who is poor.

Epicurious

  • If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid
  • If you want to be a writer, write
  • The key is to keep company with those who uplift you to be better
  • If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said but answer, "He was ignorant my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone"
  • It is impossible to begin to learn what one thinks one already knows