November 3rd
FOLLOWING THE DOCTOR’S ORDERS
“Just as we commonly hear people say the doctor prescribed someone particular riding exercises, or ice baths, or walking without shoes, we should in the same way say that nature prescribed someone to be diseased, or disabled, or to suffer any kind of impairment. In the case of the doctor, prescribed means something ordered to help aid someone’s healing. But in the case of nature, it means that what happens to each of us is ordered to help aid our destiny.”
—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.8
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November 2nd
BINDING OUR WISHES TO WHAT WILL BE
“But I haven’t at any time been hindered in my will, nor forced against it. And how is this possible? I have bound up my choice to act with the will of God. God wills that I be sick, such is my will. He wills that I should choose something, so do I. He wills that I reach for something, or something be given to me—I wish for the same. What God doesn’t will, I do not wish for.”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.1.89
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November 1st
ACCEPTING WHAT IS
“Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will—then your life will flow well.”
—EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 8
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October 30th
WHO GETS THE LION’S SHARE?
“Aren’t you ashamed to reserve for yourself only the remnants of your life and to dedicate to wisdom only that time can’t be directed to business?”
—SENECA, ON THE BREVITY OF LIFE, 3.5b
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October 29th
CHARACTER IS FATE
“Each person acquires their own character, but their official roles are designated by chance. You should invite some to your table because they are deserving, others because they may come to deserve it.”
—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 47.15b
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