The first thing to do - don't get worked up. For everything happens according to the nature of all things, and in a short time you'll be nobody and nowhere, even as the great emperors Hadrian and Augustus are now. The next thing to do - consider carefully the task at hand for what it is, while remembering that your purpose is to be a good human being. Get straight to doing what nature requires o..
Joy for human beings lies in proper human work. And proper human work consists in: acts of kindness to other human beings, disdain for the stirrings of the senses, identifying trustworthy impressions, and contemplating the natural order and all that happens in keeping with it. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.26 . 인간의 기쁨은 올바른 인간의 일에 있습니다. 그리고 올바른 인간의 일은 다음과 같은 것들로 구성됩니다.다른 인간들에게 친절한 행위를 하는 것, 감각..
You say, good fortune used to meet you at every corner. But the fortunate person is the one who gives themselves a good fortune. And good fortunes are a well-tuned soul, good impulses and good actions. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 5.36 . 행운은 과거에는 구석구석에서 당신을 만났다고 하지만, 진정으로 행운을 가진 사람은 스스로에게 행운을 주는 사람입니다. 그리고 진정한 행운은 잘 조율된 영혼, 좋은 충동과 좋은 행동입니다.
Show me that the good life doesn't consist in its length, but in its use, and that it is possible - no, entirely too common - for a person who has had a long life to have lived too little. Seneca, Moral Letters, 49.10b . 좋은 삶은 그 길이에 있는 것이 아니라, 그 사용에 의해 구성되는 것이며,오래 산 사람이 적게 살았다고 할 수 있는 것이 가능할 뿐만 아니라, 너무 흔하다.
If you don't wish to be a hot-head, don't feed your habit. Try as a first step to remain calm and count the days you haven't been angry. I used to be angry every day, now every other day, then every third or fourth.. if you make it as far as 30 days, thank God! For habit is first weakened and then obliterated. When you can say 'I didn't lose my temper today, or the next day, or for three or fou..
Don't set your mind on things you don't possess as if they were yours, but count the blessings you actually possess and think how much you would desire them if they weren't already yours. But watch yourself, that you don't value these things to the point of being troubled if you should lose them. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 7.27 . 가지고 있지 않은 것들을 마치 당신의 것처럼 생각하지 말고, 실제로 소유하고 있는 축복들을 세어보고, 만약 그것..