stoic
hedonist

48.13° N · 11.58° E · 520 m

— The standing order

I Choose few. Choose well.
II Build in silence. Let the work speak.
III Master the dull thing first.
IV Treat the body as the first instrument.
V Move between cities. Belong to the work, not the place.
VI Spend on what lasts. Refuse what merely shines.
VII Hold your counsel. Festina lente.

G

Discipline is the
highest form of
self-respect.

— The three pillars

Time-tested principles
made personal.

PLATE I ED. MMXXVI

Philosophy

The examined life.

PLATE II ED. MMXXVI

Core

What does not move.

PLATE III ED. MMXXVI

Places

The orbit.

— Selected readings

The shelf, in part —
quiet companions.

These four are the antecedents of Pillar I — the examined life, in longer form.

Marcus Aurelius

Returned to annually. The emperor's private notes — a manual on facing the day with composure.

Baldassare Castiglione

Where the word sprezzatura first appears. Effortlessness as the highest art.

Letter to Menoeceus

Pleasure rightly understood — not excess, but the absence of disturbance.

Junichirō Tanizaki

In Praise of Shadows

A meditation on aesthetics — what is gained by leaving things half-lit, half-said.

— The colophon

The keeper of
the record.

COLOPHON · ED. MMXXVI

I built this to keep an honest record — not for an audience, but for the practice of knowing what I hold to. The principles here are lived ones. The editions are updated when something earns it.

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