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Tolstoy Says Start With Yourself. Leo Tolstoy, photograph by Prokudin-Gorsky, 1908 — one of the first color photographs — Library of Congress https://quoteiac.com/blogs/journal/marcus-aurelius-was-the-most-powerful-man-in-the-world-he-still-wrote-himself-notes-about-how-to-be-better 2026-08-06T00:52:25-04:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0554/8664/4318/articles/3ab623665ab412f386c162bd29f0683a.jpg?v=1776482927 Marcus Aurelius Was the Most Powerful Man in the World. He Still Wrote Himself Notes About How to Be Better. 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Then 14 Million People Did Too. The Pseudo-Seneca bust, a Roman marble thought to depict Seneca the Younger. Public domain. https://quoteiac.com/blogs/journal/boris-becker-marcus-aurelius-stoicism 2026-07-21T19:42:02-04:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0554/8664/4318/articles/wimbledon-court-18-grass-quoteiac.jpg?v=1777671043 Boris Becker Read Marcus Aurelius in Prison. Then He Started Teaching It. Wimbledon Court 18, All England Club — lush grass court, empty stands. 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Public domain. https://quoteiac.com/blogs/journal/dickinson-private-journals-public-fame 2026-07-21T19:38:30-04:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0554/8664/4318/articles/dickinson-homestead-amherst-carol-highsmith_b3cfeb8f-2d7d-43aa-a450-2fa477951f39.jpg?v=1782324513 Why Emily Dickinson Valued Private Journals Over Public Fame (And What It Teaches Modern Creators) The Dickinson Homestead in Amherst, Massachusetts — where Emily Dickinson chose to stay, write in private, and refuse the public world https://quoteiac.com/blogs/journal/seneca-claim-yourself-stoic-philosophy 2026-07-21T19:51:33-04:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0554/8664/4318/articles/The_Roman_theatre_2C_built_in_the_2nd_century_AD_under_Hadrian_on_the_ruins_of_an_earlier_theatre_2C_later_renovated_under_Septimius_Severus_2C_Hierapolis_2C_Turkey__2817033895960_29.jpg?v=1781237483 The Misunderstood Geography of Control: Epictetus and Seneca on What You Actually Own The Roman theatre at Hierapolis, Turkey — built under Hadrian in the 2nd century AD, the ancient city where Epictetus was born into slavery https://quoteiac.com/blogs/journal/roosevelt-man-in-the-arena-speech-meaning 2026-06-29T11:26:01-04:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0554/8664/4318/articles/6f75b5e5ace79123fe2910934f21de3a.jpg?v=1781398614 The Architecture of Action: Roosevelt on the Failure of the Cynical Spectator Winslow Homer, Breezing Up (A Fair Wind), 1876 — National Gallery of Art, Washington. 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