Find your place, & commit to it. Marcus Aurelius 6.39

Marcus Aurelius does not want to cultivate the dissatisfaction that causes us to be always looking to replace things or people around ourselves, shopping for better fulfilment, more happiness, or whatever it is that leads us to seek our fate beyond what exists here & now. Find the best in your immediate reach & commit to it, for real (ἀλλ’ ἀληθινῶς).


Οἷς συγκεκλήρωσαι πράγμασι, τούτοις συνάρμοζε σεαυτόν, καὶ οἷς συνείληχας ἀνθρώποις, τούτους φίλει, ἀλλ’ ἀληθινῶς.


Put yourself in harmony with whatever circumstances fall to your lot, and love the people with whom you must face them, but you have to be earnest about it.