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Ramakrishna, Max Müller, Ramakrishna: His Life and Sayings (1898), saying 330
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What blocks the road helps you along it.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 5.20
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.49
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What blocks the road helps you along it.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 5.20
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A calm mind is a citadel.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.48
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Same river, never the same water.
Heraclitus, Fragment 41-42
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Get out of my sun.
Diogenes, Diogenes Laertius, Lives 6
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With it or on it.
Spartan mother, Plutarch, Sayings of Spartan Women 241f
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Sword too short? Take one step closer.
Spartan mother, Plutarch, Sayings of Spartan Women, Anonymous 18 (241f)
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The highest good is like water.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching 8
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Who they were, what they taught, and what their words ask of you. Every essay cites its ancient sources.
- 121–180 ADMarcus AureliusThe Roman emperor who spent his last decade at war on the Danube and wrote private notes to himself on how to stay just, calm and kind, notes we now read as the Meditations.Read the life, 9 min
- c. 4 BC–65 ADSenecaStoic writer, Nero's tutor and one of the richest men in Rome, whose letters on time, fear and friendship are the most readable philosophy that survives from the ancient world.Read the life, 7 min
- 1875–1961Carl JungCarl Gustav Jung was the Swiss psychiatrist who broke with Freud and gave us the persona, the shadow, introverts and extraverts, and the idea that the work of a lifetime is to become your whole self.Read the life, 10 min
- traditionally 6th century BC; the text took shape c. 4th century BCLao Tzu (Laozi)The name attached to the Tao Te Ching, a short Chinese book of about 5,000 characters that teaches strength through softness, and still reads like advice written this morning.Read the life, 8 min
- early Edo period, 1584–1645Miyamoto MusashiJapan's most famous swordsman, undefeated in more than sixty fights by his own account, whose Book of Five Rings turns a lifetime of combat into a plain manual for mastering anything.Read the life, 8 min
- c. 4 BC – c. AD 30Jesus of NazarethA Jewish teacher from Galilee, crucified under Roman rule, whose teaching on love, forgiveness and the kingdom of God founded the world's largest faith and shaped the moral vocabulary of people of every belief.Read the life, 9 min
- 19th century, 1844–1900Friedrich NietzscheA German philosopher who asked what we live for once the old certainties are gone, and answered with a demand to say yes to life, all of it, including the pain.Read the life, 9 min
- c. 412–323 BCDiogenesThe Cynic who lived in a storage jar in Athens, begged from statues for practice and told Alexander the Great to get out of his sun, and whose life was one long argument that most of what we want is unnecessary.Read the life, 7 min
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Know yourself
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Pittacus, Diogenes Laertius, Lives 1
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Delphic maxim, Delphic inscription (Plato, Protagoras 343b)
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