BY THEME
On Virtue
On the good, on character, and on moral excellence as the only true wealth.
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If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.
Meditations 12.17
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
Meditations 6.6
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Letters from a Stoic 104.8
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We will deserve to be considered happy if, living rightly, we act rightly.
Lectures 17
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To us human beings, living virtuously is the same thing as living happily.
Lectures 17
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I would rather that good men should envy me than that bad men should praise me.
Plutarch, Life of Cato the Younger
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A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
Meditations 7.3
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That which is not good for the beehive cannot be good for the bees.
Meditations 6.54
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A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
Meditations 3.5
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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be good.
Meditations 7.15