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Live according to nature, which is to live according to reason.

Zeno of Citium · Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers · paraphrase

What it means today

For the Stoics, nature and reason are the same instruction: act as the world actually works, not as you wish it worked. To live reasonably is to live in tune with reality.

Try this todayWhen a wish conflicts with reality today, side with reality and see what it asks.

Today’s questionAm I living by reason, or by wishes?

#nature #reason #living

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