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One teaching, one question, one dispatch — a single sitting, drawn fresh from the corpus each day.
Today's Reading · 2026-06-27
Ita fac, mi Lucili: vindica te tibi — Do this, my Lucilius: claim yourself for yourself.
Gather and save the time which till lately was being cut away from you, stolen from you, or which slipped away. Convince yourself of the truth of what I say: some moments are torn from us, some gently removed, and some glide beyond our reach.
Omnia, Lucili, aliena sunt, tempus tantum nostrum est — Everything, Lucilius, belongs to others; time alone is ours.
Philosophy will teach us to learn how to die — and by learning how to die, to learn how to live. The person who learns to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
Where in your life does the small self mistake the named for the nameless?
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