🧩 Philosophy Oct 27, 2026 · Maria Popova

Marcus Aurelius on the Good Luck of Your Bad Luck

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Marcus Aurelius on the Good Luck of Your Bad Luck
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“What happened could have happened to anyone, but not everyone could have carried on.”

Most people live with a great deal more suffering than is visible to even the most proximate and sensitive onlooker. Many have survived things both unimaginable and invisible to the outside world. This has been the case since the dawn of our species, for human nature has hardly changed beneath the continually repainted façade of our social sanctions — human beings have always been capable of

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