Marcus Aurelius on Doing the Work

The most powerful passage from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius: pic.twitter.com/IEigLmHrDz

— Reads with Ravi (@readswithravi) July 19, 2026

Stoicism is simple but not easy. The top principles of Stoicism center on mastering your mind, virtue, and responding to life with clarity rather than impulse.

• Control what you can control.
• Align our behavior with our best human capacities - reason, virtue, cooperation, and clarity. 
• Practice virtue - wisdom, courage, justice, temperance
• Perception shapes reality. Events cause pain to the degree we allow them to cause pain. Don't feel "the second arrow." 
• "Memento mori" - remember that life is finite. 

Do the work of life. 

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