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“I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.”
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“There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child. Cicero”
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“It’s awful being a child,” she said, simply, “at the mercy of other people.”
― The Little Friend
― The Little Friend
“Let the youthful soul look back on life with the question: what have you truly loved up to now, what has elevated your soul, what has mastered it and at the same time delighted it? Place these venerated objects before you in a row, and perhaps they will yield for you, through their nature and their sequence, a law, the fundamental law of your true self. Compare these objects, see how one complements, expands, surpasses, transfigures another, how they form a stepladder upon which you have climbed up to yourself as you are now; for your true nature lies, not hidden deep within you, but immeasurably high above you, or at least above that which you normally take to be yourself.”
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Angel’s 2025 Year in Books
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