#PanaetiusOfRhodes

“He rewrote Stoicism for ordinary, imperfect people — and through Cicero's On Duties, his lost Greek book quietly became the West's default manual for how a decent public person should behave.”

“Ethics is not a geometry for perfect sages; it is practical guidance for imperfect people making progress — and each of us must harmonize four roles at once: human being, individual, creature of circumstance, and chooser of a path.”