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"He who intends to introduce a new law, should do it with a rope about his neck, in order that he might be immediately strangled, unless he could change the ancient constitution of the polity, to the very great advantage of his community." - Hierocles
I've had a lot of bosses who could stand to follow today's stoic quote. Those bosses are a large part of the reason that I am interested in stoic philosophy.
"What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery - beware enslaving others. If you can endure to do that, one would think that you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor freedom with slavery." - Epictetus (born a slave, disabled, and later banished from Rome along with all philosophers by emperor Domitian)
"The first step: Don't be anxious. Nature controls all. And before long, you'll be no one, nowhere - like Hadrian, like Augustus."
"The second step: Concentrate on what you have to do. Fix your eyes on it. Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being; remind yourself what nature demands of people."
"Then do it, without hesitation, and speak the truth as you see it."
"But with kindness. With humility. Without hypocrisy." - Marcus Aurelius
"Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just" - Marcus Aurelius
"It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amidst abundance." - Epictetus
"No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius
"Ambition means tying your well-being to what others say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity mans tying it to your own actions." - Marcus Aurelius
