After-Orts #56
The best revenge is not to be like that.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 6.6
The way people behave. They refuse to admire their contemporaries, the people whose lives they share. No, but to be admired by Posterity—people they’ve never met and never will—that’s what they set their hearts on. You might as well be upset at not being a hero to your great-grandfather.
— ibid., 6.18
Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of their relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are one.
— ibid., 6.38
- a cautionary tale -
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