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January 1 - December 31, 2022
“We control our reasoned choice and all acts that depend on that moral will. What’s not under our control are the body and any of its parts, our possessions, parents, siblings, children, or country—anything with which we might associate.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 1.22.10
a wise person knows what’s inside their circle of control and what is outside of it.
What lasts longer (and remains more within our circle of control)? Wisdom, good character, sobriety, and kindness.
Break the pattern, interrupt the negative impulse.
When a bad habit reveals itself, counteract it with a commitment to a contrary virtue.
“You have proof in the extent of your wanderings that you never found the art of living anywhere—not in logic, nor in wealth, fame, or in any indulgence. Nowhere. Where is it then? In doing what human nature demands. How is a person to do this? By having principles be the source of desire and action. What principles? Those to do with good and evil, indeed in the belief that there is no good for a human being except what creates justice, self-control, courage and freedom, and nothing evil except what destroys these things.”
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