“If you wish not to be disappointed in your desires, that is in your own power. Exercise, therefore, what is in your power.”
Enchiridion 14 [Higginson Trans.]
Sunday, May 14, 2006
“No one is master of the ruling faculty of another.”
Discourses 4.5.4 [Carter Trans.]
Friday, May 12, 2006
“When death appears as an evil, we ought to immediately remember that evils may be avoided, but death is inevitable.”
Discourses 1.27.7 [Carter Trans.]
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
“A man ought to be at the same time cautious and courageous: courageous toward things which do not depend on our choice, and cautious in things which are within our choice.”