"What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows." - Epictetus In case it's only dawning on...
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." -Epictetus What Epictetus is saying here isn't that you should only associate with those who share ...
"The longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose." -Marcus Aureliu...
