Let these doctrines, if that is what they are, be enough for you. As for your thirst for books, be done with it, so that you may not die with complaints on your lips, but with a truly cheerful mind and grateful to the gods with all your heart. — Meditations, 2.3
The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, like other Stoics, believed that it was more important to …
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