Words of the Ancient Wise: January 22

Sunday

January 22 - Equanimity

Nothing that happens injures me, unless I take it as an evil; and it is in my power not to take it so.

Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, book v, sec. 20

The mind turns every obstacle into an aid.

Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, book vii, sec. 14

Man becomes better and nobler by making a right use of all that comes to pass.

Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, book x, sec. 33

Using this Blog

For this year, we are continuing our move to a new set of quotes, drawn from Frederic Holland's 1879 "The Reign of the Stoics." Unlike the previous volume which drew only on Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus, 'Reign' includes quotes from very nearly every source of Stoic wisdom, arranged topically. The only significant gap is quotes from the works of Musonius Rufus, which I will be adding under the correct topics.

The passages from Words of the Ancient Wise will remain on the blog under the year 2011. I found Words of the Ancient Wise in late 2008, and my wife and I had been reading the passages fairly consistently since. 2011 was the third year of our run through this text. Re-reading the old comment reveals some interesting truths about our lives.

Cheers and Good Reading