## Highlights His Words ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hgvsbnkhftxnkd5n1nd5xj6z)) “I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hgvsfk7gd5w3p2pw5q6p0715)) - 💭 overlook the labels we give ourselves and realize our similarities. being a citizen has a moral obligation to be civil amongst its community that everyone is part of. we are not our identities, we merely are part of this greater collective. ### New highlights added January 26, 2024 at 10:21 AM “My advice to you is getting married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hn3eq5nzq2s0g2z1y60m1y9x)) - 💭 philosophers aren't happy they are not happy because they think more than they experience the world? and having a wife gives you a lot of new avenues? philosophy on its owm is not fulfilling ### New highlights added January 29, 2024 at 10:06 AM “Virtue does not come from wealth, but… wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hnb2yw517dacfey4r27bs6cn)) - 💭 virtue should be our north star ### New highlights added January 30, 2024 at 10:06 AM The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, me to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better? Only God knows.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hndk9n714ymz1m5swhprfm28)) ### New highlights added February 1, 2024 at 11:36 AM “All I know is that I know nothing” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hnk0gvw1z1spvktw6d7st1n8)) - 💭 If all you know is that you know nothing then you need to continue learning All we know is to become more wise ### New highlights added February 13, 2024 at 10:39 AM “And now we go, you to your lives, and I to death, and which of us goes to the better only God knows” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hphtkgb9gsymbst4pbnhwsj7)) - 💭 we will never know the specifics of the afterlife if God knows and God tells us we will go to heaven, then that doesn't necessarily downplay the possibility of a heaven? But the problem is that we don't have God to ask right now? but by the better he implies there is an afterlife that is good and one that is not as good? we don't truly know what would constitute going there? ### New highlights added February 14, 2024 at 12:23 PM “And so they grow richer and richer, and the more they think of making a fortune the less they think of virtue; for when riches and virtue are placed together in the scales of the balance, the one always rises as the other falls.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hpmhw719sqs4ntetgcp076ak)) - 💭 if you aim for virtue, money might not always increase because that isn't your goal even more valuable reminder in a capitalist society - money ideally should be a byproduct instead they can co-exist together but the focus is what is at aodds ### New highlights added February 20, 2024 at 11:00 AM And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the sight’s being mislead by the colors, and every sort of confusion of this kind is plainly in our soul. And, then, it is because they take advantage of this affection in our nature that shadow painting, and puppeteering, and many other tricks of the kind fall nothing short of wizardry.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hq3rt3teq354d3c2eadd1j51)) - 💭 the way we see the world is full of self-deception, which is preyed upon by people who try to trick us for good or bad reasons its magic in the sense that we don't know what is happening, but if we are wise enough we can find out ### New highlights added February 21, 2024 at 9:11 AM “And therefore if the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul; that is the first and essential thing. And the care of the soul, my dear youth, has to be effected by the use of certain charms, and these charms are fair words; and by them temperance is implanted in the soul, and where temperance comes and stays, there health is speedily imparted, not only to the head, but to the whole body.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hq696jb68qfrhvfnvtptx2e0)) - 💭 a bit of a lackluster quote imo the soul is our mindset? and charms are affirmations from other people? by being loved we learn to regulate, like how when you have adhd one of the best remedies is human connection and unconditional support? ### New highlights added March 12, 2024 at 1:57 PM Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hrt3vctvkw6k2pmmp3fg86pj)) - 💭 the biggest gripe i have with capitalisr creators. we have lost sight on what it means to create things online and to create in general. the below should never be compromised. ### New highlights added March 31, 2024 at 2:46 PM “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01htb4arw6scaqn0ytb8x6m73g)) - 💭 barrenness means the inability to create life, and i think it makes sense. when you are so focused on business to achieve external outcomes, you fail to appreciate the already present things that can bring you joy. it's been something i have been working on as i continue to not be rigid in my productivity, and just being able to tap into the more eastern mindset has helped me do so as well. by having a busy external life, you spend less time internally ### New highlights added April 1, 2024 at 3:46 PM “Beauty is a short-lived tyranny” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01htdte4858es7pxh1mabysa48)) - 💭 I think the way this is considered a tyranny is because of how much importance it is given in the earliest stages of life when it comes to choosing a partner or other important decisions. Sometimes this obsession and emphasis on beauty can neglect other parts of our character like our personality and perspective on the world. ### New highlights added April 3, 2024 at 3:46 PM “Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.” 1 don't trust people instantly because they could be putting up facades or you could be idealizing them, but over time you will get to be closer to your true relationship. it's just contradictory to what i do because i tend to be vulnerable and deep fast 2 broader themes are on human connection, how it grows and maintains. 3 this implies that to truly connect, we need to see them for who they really are? it's counter intuitive to get deep fast and rush things with a romantic interest because you will be infatuated with your ideal image and their heightened care in appearance? ### New highlights added April 4, 2024 at 3:32 PM “Be as you wish to seem.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01htnktjh84pewcqxgc1j3z8st)) 1 Resonates with my desire for authenticity, as you want to be known as who you really are 2 At the same time, there is the word wish, which can also mean trying to role model after your ideal self, under the assumption that you do want to grow into that ideal? 3 This is the act of [[Aspiration]]### New highlights added April 5, 2024 at 3:48 PM Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01htr4x5d24rjsycrwspc7xr58)) - 💭 1 do not assume that people are ill intended, view them with compassion and selflessness to be welcoming for those who need it most 2 can be something i do to even these more capitalist creators. fortunately i dont receive much hate but even when i do i just try to meet with empathy 3 by being empathy, youre making these battles a collective effort ### New highlights added April 6, 2024 at 6:56 PM “Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01htty4acn6zqy1athfc1ymnyn)) - 💭 1 natural wealth since we all can achieve contentment, artifical poverty since we create our own unhappiness when we do not have it 2 there is some masochism with the pursuit of luxury? at least in the perspective of this framing? 3 kind of goes to how we just cannot grasp the fact that the present is all we have, and we will even self-sabotage to try and escape it ### New highlights added April 25, 2024 at 3:15 PM Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hwbjh3jt99tsqtqr2jpm2m4p)) - 💭 acceptance of death and subjective negative experiences how is the world is fair to those who act with virtue? because there is an assumption that they lived the best live that they could, and everything else was just out of control? we cheer for death because it is when we get to rest after the inevitable suffering of life?