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Natural Hierarchy: The Common Ground of Authority in Principles
“The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.” -William of Auxerre
At Year’s End: Three Quotes to Help Accept the End
“You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.”
John Irving
Change is The Only Constant: 3 Quotes that Can Help You Accept Change in Life
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
Lao Tzu
The Greater Good: Universal Philosophical Values Both Past and Present
“Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging.”
-Marcus Aurelius
Virtue vs. Vice: Then and Now
“Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of vice…. None is a slave whose acts are free.”
-Epictetus
Kindness Despite Disagreement
“Begin the morning by saying to yourself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil. … I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor hate him.” -Marcus Aurelius
Simplicity: Then and Now
“Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity.
Put others first.
Desire little.”
-Lao Tzu
“This Too Shall Pass!” Living With Impermanence Through Hard Times.
“Thus strong wind does not last all morning.
Sudden rain does not last all day.
Even Heaven and Earth cannot make it last” -Tao Te Ching Chapter 23