“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.” ( Henry Miller, The Books in My Life) “anteambulo ” (Latin) - walk before. Think: the person who clears the path controls the direction. “When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own—not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me.” (Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 2.1) “Many words have been spoken by Plato, Zeno, Chrysippus, Posidonius, and by a whole host of equally excellent Stoics. I’ll tell you how people can prove their words to be their own—by putting into practice what they’ve been preaching.” (Seneca, Moral Letters, 108.35; 38) “When you do things for peo...