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"Read the third dialogue, Crito. I only had to read the first two for class but I bought the whole book, I'm going to read the whole book. This dialogue was quite short but I really liked it. Discussion of what it means to be a good citizen as well as thoughts on how to face death with dignity. I think about my own death and mortality a lot so I liked this aspect. Wish everyone nowadays had a spine like Socrates." — Oct 06, 2026 10:07AM
"Read the third dialogue, Crito. I only had to read the first two for class but I bought the whole book, I'm going to read the whole book. This dialogue was quite short but I really liked it. Discussion of what it means to be a good citizen as well as thoughts on how to face death with dignity. I think about my own death and mortality a lot so I liked this aspect. Wish everyone nowadays had a spine like Socrates." — Oct 06, 2026 10:07AM
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"Read Book VIII. I have a bad habit of getting halfway through a book/chapter then not finishing it and coming back days later. Given how this was supposed to be read aloud in one sitting it kinda fucks up the message of the book. Took me a week to finish this chapter. But basically in this section St. Augustine finally converts fully to the Catholic Church." — Oct 05, 2026 02:56PM
"Read Book VIII. I have a bad habit of getting halfway through a book/chapter then not finishing it and coming back days later. Given how this was supposed to be read aloud in one sitting it kinda fucks up the message of the book. Took me a week to finish this chapter. But basically in this section St. Augustine finally converts fully to the Catholic Church." — Oct 05, 2026 02:56PM
“The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.”
― The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
― The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
“And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“His soldiers shouted out to Alexander to lead them forward boldly…declaring that they would not regard themselves as weary, or thirsty, or as mortals at all, so long as they had such a king.”
― The Age of Alexander (Penguin Classics) by Plutarch
― The Age of Alexander (Penguin Classics) by Plutarch
“Sixth, consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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