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Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.

Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.

Marcus Aurelius
Children, Names, Opinion
Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.126, Enhanced Media Publishing

Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing far the consulship and for the kingdom; yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.

Marcus Aurelius
Children, War, Holiday

If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.

Marcus Aurelius
Children, Care, Reason
Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.40, Lulu.com

If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.

Marcus Aurelius
Children, Moving, Two
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.91, Modern Library

What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How does my ruling part stand affected? And whose soul have I now? That of a child, or a young man, or a feeble woman, or of a tyrant, of cattle or wild beasts.

Marcus Aurelius
Children, Men, Tyrants
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome.), Alice Zimmern (189?). “Meditations”

Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the one that make plants and children? Go deeper.

Marcus Aurelius
Children, Thinking, Plant

Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?

Marcus Aurelius
Children, Age, Youth
Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.65, Enhanced Media Publishing

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