You will earn the respect of all if you begin by earning the respect of yourself. Don’t expect to encourage good deeds in people conscious of your own misdeeds.
— Musonius Rufus
Here we are, my first paid post. Something I’ve been meaning to get around to. I just wanted to note that my newsletter’s will remain free, and continue to be released every week now on Tuesday, and Friday.
So now let’s talk about my second favourite Philosopher. If I had to choose one of the Stoics to turn to for inspiration in terms of dealing with adversity and in search of someone who was supremely self-disciplined, we don’t have to look any further than the man who is known or not?, as one of the four great Stoic Philosophers of Roman antiquity.
Gaius Musonius Rufus was born in and around 30 CE in Volsinii (modern Bolsena), an Etruscan city in Italy and fortunately for him into a rather wealthy family. Gaius was a member of the equestrian class known as the eques, ranking just below the senatorial class in Rome. Among his colleagues he was a man of many Philosophical talents and known as an exquisite teacher.
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