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Live according to virtue, and no circumstance can make you poor.
Musonius Rufus · Lectures · paraphrase
What it means today

The only real poverty is the loss of character, and that is always chosen, never imposed. A life lived by virtue cannot be made poor by any circumstance.

Try this todayAct on one virtue today, and notice that no circumstance can take it from you.
Today’s questionWhat poverty do I fear, that cannot actually touch my character?
#virtue#poverty#character
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