Posts Tagged with "Marcus Aurelius"

“The best revenge is to not be like that.”

Monday, September 7, 2009

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I pledged a fraternity last Fall semester and have experienced the “Greek Life” or the “Greek System” firsthand over the last year.  I love observing this culture and you can learn a lot just by stepping aside and spectating the interactions between people inside it.  While doing this though, I try to strip aside any [...]

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Don’t Worry, Be Happy

Saturday, July 19, 2008

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Worrying about other people seems to be a common theme I notice, among myself, men and women, young and old, that rules people’s thoughts and essentially their minds. Its everywhere; gossip magazines about the lifestyles of the rich and famous, the constant slandering of those who make mistakes, and the envy of those [...]

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“We cannot step twice into the same river”

Saturday, March 29, 2008

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I’m currently studying the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, the Hays Translation.  “We cannot step twice into the same river” – Heraclitus Marcus expands on this… “Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried passed us, and another follows and is gone.”  (4.43 in Hays)  Its amazing at how I can relate those [...]

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