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Book cover for How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
Our master is anyone who has the power to implement or prevent the things that we want or don’t want. Whoever wants to be free, therefore, should wish for nothing or avoid nothing that is up to other people. Failing that, one is bound to be ...more
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William Ferraiolo
“The length of your life is not nearly as important as the quality of the person living it.”
William Ferraiolo, Meditations on Self-Discipline and Failure: Stoic Exercise for Mental Fitness

Byung-Chul Han
“What proves problematic is not individual competition per se, but rather its self-referentiality, which escalates into absolute competition. That is, the achievement-subject competes with itself; it succumbs to the destructive compulsion to outdo itself over and over, to jump over its own shadow. This self-constraint, which poses as freedom, has deadly results.”
Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society

Marcus Aurelius
“Never act without purpose; make sure that all your actions conform to the philosophical principles that constitute the art of living.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: The Annotated Edition

Marcus Aurelius
“While you live—while you can—be a good man.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: The Annotated Edition

Mary Beard
“Among all the things we fancy we have inherited from ancient Rome, from drains to place names, or the offices of the Catholic Church, the calendar is probably the most important and the most often overlooked.”
Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

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