PASSAGE OF THE WEEK:
"Look at Marcus Aurelius. He was granted all sorts of incredible power. How did he manage to remain good when so many others, from Nero to Tiberius, had been broken by it? The same way that he managed not to be broken by the incredible adversity of the Antonine Plague. It was his good character that protected and guided him. That's what the expression 'character is fate' means. It predetermined the outcome, just as it assured that Nero would never have been a good emperor, even without the Great Fire and the opposition he faced.
We can't predict the future but character is predictive. It tells us how we will respond to the future, which in the end, is all we need to know.
It's not much, but man, does it add up."
—from Daily Stoic's Monday email, "You Can't Predict the Future, But You Can Predict This"
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