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Sep 24, 2024 • 17 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X

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It is only when one grows older and more mature that one can truly appreciate the classics.

Last night, I finished re-reading Marcus Aurelius' Meditations for the first time.

Here are the greatest insights from one of the most important philosophical texts in Western history.

Love of family, love of truth, love of justice.

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Meditations)

Perform each action as if it were the last of your life.

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Meditations)

Give thyself time to learn something new and good.

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Meditations)

Life is warfare.

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Meditations)

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Meditations)

Be your own master.

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Meditations)

Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good.

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Meditations)

Never make yourself a tyrant or slave to any man.

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Meditations)

I am going to do what I was born for, the purpose for which I was brought into the world.

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Meditations)

Nothing happens to any man which he is not capable of enduring.

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Meditations)

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Meditations)

Vanity is the greatest seducer of reason: when you are most convinced that your work is important, that is when you are most under its spell.

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Meditations)

Do not let the future trouble you. You will come to it possessed of the same reason that you apply now to the present.

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Meditations)

A mind free from passions is a fortress.

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Meditations)

The corruption of the mind is much more a plague than any such contaminating change in the surrounding air we breathe.

The latter infects animate creatures in their animate nature: the former infects human beings in their humanity.

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Meditations)

Do not despise death: welcome it.

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Meditations)

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