“Vindica te tibi. — Claim yourself for yourself.”
When work, people or a phone own too much of you.
This line comes on
About this line
These are the first words of Seneca’s first letter to Lucilius — the opening move of a correspondence that became his handbook on how to live. Vindica te tibi is less advice than command: a legal term meaning to reclaim what’s rightfully yours, turned inward. Reclaim yourself, from everything and everyone you’ve quietly signed yourself over to.
Why we carry this line
“Claim yourself, for yourself.” Not for your obligations, not for anyone’s idea of you. I needed to hear it. Most people do.
The design
Set in Roman capitals, the way Latin was cut into stone. The small dots are interpuncts, the marks Roman stonecutters carved between words.
The Latin is the design: VINDICA TE TIBI, with the English above it.
Documented source
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