Rust Belt Daily Affirmation - March 27, 2025
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I made a thing…sort of.
My new #DailyAffirmation from Kevin Hart:
“A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.”
By Marcus Aurelius
From: The Stoic
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“Think of yourself as dead.
You have lived your life.
Now, take what's left and live it properly.
What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.”
By Marcus Aurelius
From: The Stoic
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“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.”
By Marcus Aurelius
From: The Stoic
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“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.”
By Lucius Annaeus Seneca
From: The Stoic
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“Recognize the malice, cunning, and hypocrisy that power produces, and the peculiar ruthlessness often shown by people from 'good families.'”
By Marcus Aurelius
From: The Stoic
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“We are members of one great body, planted by nature. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole”
By Lucius Annaeus Seneca
From: The Stoic
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“Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty. For what task, then, were you yourself created?”
By Marcus Aurelius
From: The Stoic
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“IN THE morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?”
By Marcus Aurelius
From: The Stoic
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“Epictetus being asked how a man should give pain to his enemy answered, By preparing himself to live the best life that he can.”
By Epictetus
From: The Stoic
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“First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.”
By Epictetus
From: The Stoic
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“What concerns me is not the way things are, but the way people think things are.”
By Epictetus
From: The Stoic
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“Take the shortest route, the one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculation and pretension.”
By Marcus Aurelius
From: The Stoic
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“Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbours, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so - and - so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming - in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the Ruler within you - means a loss of opportunity for some other task.”
By Marcus Aurelius
From: The Stoic
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“Men do not care how nobly they live, but only for how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.”
By Lucius Annaeus Seneca
From: The Stoic
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“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”
By Lucius Annaeus Seneca
From: The Stoic
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“That to expect bad people not to injure others is crazy. It's to ask the impossible. And to let them behave like that to other people but expect them to exempt you is arrogant - the act of a tyrant.”
By Marcus Aurelius
From: The Stoic
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