What's truly impressive
How much better is it to be known for doing well by many than for living extravagantly? How much more worthy than spending on sicks and stones is it to spend on people? Musonius Rufus, Lectures, 19.91.26-28 많은 사람들에게 잘하는 것으로 알려지는 것이 사치스럽게 사는 것보다 얼마나 더 좋을까요?돈을 병든 것과 돌에 쓰는 것보다 사람들에게 돈을 쓰는 것이 얼마나 더 가치 있을까요?
Show, Not tell, What you know
Those who receive the bare theories immediately want to spew them, as an upset stomach does its food. First digest your theories and you won't throw them up. Otherwise they will be raw, spoiled, and not nourishing. After you've digested them, show us the changes in your reasoned choices, just like the shoulders of gymnasts display their diet and training, and as the craft of artisans show in wha..
Be the person you want to be
First tell yourself what kind of person you want to be, then do what you have to do. For in nearly every pursuit we see this to be the case. Those in athletic pursuit first choose the sport they want, and then do that work. Epictetus, Discourses, 3.23.1-2a - 먼저 너 자신에게 어떤 사람이 되고 싶은지 말하고 난 후에 해야 할 일을 하세요.대부분의 노력에서 우리는 이것이 사실임을 확인하게 됩니다.운동을 추구하는 사람들은 먼저 하고 싶은 운동을 선택하고, 그다음에 그 일을 하면 된다.
What is in keeping with your character?
. Just as what is considered rational or irrational differs for each person, in the same way what is good or evil and useful or useless differs for each person. This is why we need education, so that we might learn how to adjust our preconceived notions of the rational and irrational in harmony with nature, In sorting this out, we don't simply rely on our estimate of the value of external thing..
Washing away the dust of life
. Watch the star in their courses and imagine yourself running alongside them. Think constantly on the changes of the elements into each other, for such thoughts wash away the dust of earthly life. Marcus Aurelius, Meditation, 7.4.7 별들이 궤도를 따라 움직이는 것을 보고, 그들과 함께 달리는 모습을 상상해 보세요.요소들이 서로 변화하는 것에 대해 끊임없이 생각해보세요.그런 생각들이 지상계의 먼지를 씻어내기 때문입니다. .
There's nothing wrong with being wrong
. If anyone can prove and show to me that I think and act in error, I will gladly change it - for I seek the truth, by which no one has ever been harmed. The one who is harmed is the one who abides in deceit and ignorance. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 6.21 누군가 나아게 내가 잘못 생각하고 행동하는 것을 증명하고 보여줄 수 있다면, 나는 기꺼이 그것을 바꿀 것이다.왜냐하면, 나는 진실을 찾고 있으며, 진실에 의해 아무도 해를 입은 적이 없기 때문이다. 해를 입는 사람은 속임수와 무지에 머무는 사람이다...
A productive use for contempt
. Just as when meat or other foods are set before us we think, this is a dead fish, a dead bird or pig; and also, this fine wine is only juice of a bunch of grapes, this purple-edged robe just sheep's wool dyed in a bit of blood from a shellfish; or of sex, that it is only rubbing private parts together followed by a spasmic discharge - in the same way our impressions grab actual events and perm..