The Classical Philosopher Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

The Classical Philosopher

“let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.” ― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

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“Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise.” ― Aristotle, The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle

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“keep the spirit inside you undamaged, as if you might have to give it back at any moment” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: A New Translation

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“Of all the things that wisdom provides for the happiness of the whole man, by far the most important is the acquisition of friendship.” ― Epicurus, The Art of Happiness

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“For Tragedy is an imitation, not of men, but of an action and of life, and life consists in action, and its end is a mode of action, not a quality.” ― Aristotle, Poetics

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“As it is with a play, so it is with life - what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is.” ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

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“The saddest aspect of life is that there is no one on earth whose happiness is such that he won't sometimes wish he were dead rather than alive.” ― Herodotus, The Histories

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“The best revenge is not to be like that.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“The noble things and the just things, which the political art examines, admit of much dispute and variability, such that they are held to exist by law11 alone and not by nature.” ― Aristotle,, Nicomachean Ethics