Simple Stoic Advice
Virtue
The beautiful thing about Stoic philosophy is the advice contained within it is just as applicable today as it was when it was first written all those many years ago. We can learn a great deal from interpreting the advice provided and using it to our advantage as we go throughout our own lives.
Today’s quote comes to us courtesy of Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.17:
Quote
“The elements move upward, downward, in all directions. The motion of virtue is different — deeper. It moves at a steady pace on a road hard to discern, and always forward.”
Advice
The idea of virtue to the Stoics was that the pursuit of it was our job in life. The Stoics held Four Cardinal Virtues which they sought each and every day.
Donald Robertson, author of How to Think Like a Roman Emperor and Stoicism and the Art of Happiness once said:
“The doxographer Diogenes Laertius said that the Stoics described the supreme good as “honourable” because it consists of the four factors (virtues) required for the perfection of human nature: wisdom, justice, courage, and orderliness (self-discipline). The “honourable”, he says, denotes…
