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We can remove most sins if we have a witness standing by as we are about to go wrong. The soul should have someone it can respect, by whose example it can make its inner sanctum more inviolable. Happy is the person who can improve others, not only when present, but even when in their thoughts. SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 11.9 *Cato : 로마 시대의 유명한 철학자이자 군인. 절제된 삶과 도덕적인 행동으로 유명했다. 여기에서는 도덕적인 조언을 주는 지혜로운 ..

Above all, keep a close watch on this - that you are never so tied to your former acquaintances and friends that you are pulled down to their level. If you don't, you'll be ruined... You must choose whether to be loved by these friends and remain the same person, or to become a better person at the cost of those friends.. if you try to have it both ways you will neither make progress nor keep wh..

If a person gave away your body to some passerby, you'd be furious. Yet you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along, so they may abuse you, leaving it disturbed and troubled - have you no shame in that? EPITETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 28 만약 누군가 당신의 시신을 그냥 지나가는 이에게 넘겨주었다면, 분노할 것입니다. 그러나 당신은 어떤 사람에게나 당신의 마음을 맡기고, 그들이 학대할 수 있게 하고, 그로 인해 혼란스럽고 괴로워지도록 합니다. 당신은 그에 대해 부끄러움을 느끼지 않나요?

"Heraclitus called self-deception an awful disease and eyesight a lying sense." -DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS, 9.7 헤라클리투스는 자기기만을 끔찍한 병이, 시력을 거짓된 감각이라고 불렀다.