Sunday, February 8, 2009

Sunday's Philosophical Nugget

My friend Bill will be gratified to see me quote the Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher, Marcus Aurelius Antonius:

"Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall
compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect,
to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite,
to desire anything which needs walls and curtains:
for he who has preferred to everything else his own
intelligence and daemon and the worship of its excellence,
acts no tragic part, does not groan, will not need either
solitude or much company; and, what is chief of all,
he will live without either pursuing or flying from death."

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