How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
What’s the Book About?
This book is designed to help you follow Marcus Aurelias in acquiring Stoic strength of mind and eventually a more profound sense of fulfillment. The book combines Stoicism with cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, which is only natural because CBT was inspired by Stoicism.
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Quotes From the Book
- We have a duty to protect our ability to reason and to use it.
- Hercules had something far more satisfying than pleasure: he had purpose.
- We should be guided by the qualities we admire in other people.
- Ask yourself daily, what use am I now making of my soul?
- He who knows how to suffer suffers less.
- The universe is change: life is opinion.
- It is not things, or sensations, that upset us, but our judgments about them.
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