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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
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“The length of your life is not nearly as important as the quality of the person living it.”
― Meditations on Self-Discipline and Failure: Stoic Exercise for Mental Fitness
― Meditations on Self-Discipline and Failure: Stoic Exercise for Mental Fitness
“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.”
― The Burnout Society
― The Burnout Society
“Never act without purpose; make sure that all your actions conform to the philosophical principles that constitute the art of living.”
― Meditations: The Annotated Edition
― Meditations: The Annotated Edition
“While you live—while you can—be a good man.”
― Meditations: The Annotated Edition
― Meditations: The Annotated Edition
“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.”
― SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
― SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Phil Yanov’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Phil Yanov’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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