Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius

Three Point Thursday | 3 Timeless Maxims

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”

—Seneca

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”

—Epictetus

“You can discard most of the junk that clutters your mind—things that exist only there—and clear out space for yourself by comprehending the scale of the world, by contemplating infinite time, by thinking of the speed with which things change—each part of everything; the narrow space between our birth and death; the infinite time before; the equally unbounded time that follows.”

—Marcus Aurelius