If you don't wish to be a hot-head, don't feed your habit. Try as a first step to remain calm and count the days you haven't been angry. I used to be angry every day, now every other day, then every third or fourth.. if you make it as far as 30 days, thank God! For habit is first weakened and then obliterated. When you can say 'I didn't lose my temper today, or the next day, or for three or fou..
Don't set your mind on things you don't possess as if they were yours, but count the blessings you actually possess and think how much you would desire them if they weren't already yours. But watch yourself, that you don't value these things to the point of being troubled if you should lose them. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 7.27 . 가지고 있지 않은 것들을 마치 당신의 것처럼 생각하지 말고, 실제로 소유하고 있는 축복들을 세어보고, 만약 그것..
Those obsessed with glory attach their well-being to the regard of others, those who love pleasure tie it to feelings, but the one with true understanding seeks it only in their own actions.... Think on the character of the people one wishes to please, the possessions one means to gain, and the tactics on employs to such ends. How quickly time erases such things, and how many has it wiped away a..
Every habit and capability is confirmed and grows in its corresponding actions, walking by walking, and running by running... therefore, if you want to do something make a habit of it, if you don't want to do that, don't, but make a habit of something else instead. The same principle is at work in our state of mind. When you get angry, you've not only experienced that evil, but you've also reinf..
Let us therefore set out whole-heartedly, leaving aside out many distractions and exert ourselves in this single purpose, before we realize too late the swift and unstoppable flight of time and are left behind. As each day arises, welcome it as the very best day of all, and make it your own possession. We must seize what flees. Seneca, Moral Letters, 109.27b-28a . 그러므로 우리는 온전히 마음을 다해 나아가자. 수많은 ..
Where is Good? In our reasoned choices. Where is Evil? In our reasoned choices. Where is that which is neither Good nor Evil? In the things outside of our own reasoned choice. Epictetus, Discourses, 2.16.1 . 선은 어디에 있는가? 우리의 합리적인 선택 속에 있습니다.악은 어디에 있는가? 우리의 합리적인 선택 속에 있습니다.선도 악도 아닌 것은 어디에 있는가? 우리의 합리적인 선택의 영향을 받지 않는 것들 속에 있습니다.