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📜 Sharing daily Stoic wisdom. Quotes from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca, and more. 📍 Palatine Hill 🏛️ Occasional quotes from other philosophers

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🏛️Roman History📜: 1138 AD – A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo in Syria on October 11, one of the deadliest quakes in recorded history.

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🏛️Roman History📜: 19 AD – Germanicus Julius Caesar, popular Roman general and heir of Tiberius, dies in Antioch under suspicious circumstances at age 33.

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🔥 Enduring wisdom from Marcus Aurelius:

“How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.”

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🏛️Roman History📜: 19 AD – Germanicus Julius Caesar, popular Roman general and heir of Tiberius, dies in Antioch under suspicious circumstances at age 33.

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📖 Teachings of Lao Tzu:

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

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🌀 Perspective from Marcus Aurelius:

“Think how much is going on inside you every second—in your soul, in your body. Why should it astonish you that so much more—everything that happens in that all-embracing unity, the world—is happening at the same time?”

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🧱 Foundation from Marcus Aurelius:

“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”

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🏛️Roman History📜: 768 AD – Charlemagne is crowned co-King of the Franks (with his brother Carloman) on October 9, upon the death of their father Pepin the Short.

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🏛️ Philosophy from Epictetus:

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

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🏛️Roman History📜: 768 AD – Charlemagne is crowned co-King of the Franks (with his brother Carloman) on October 9, upon the death of their father Pepin the Short.

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🌿 Stillness in Marcus Aurelius's words:

“Disgraceful: for the soul to give up when the body is still going strong.”