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A Stoic quotes widget for your iPhone
Quill puts one line from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus or Seneca on your Lock Screen or Home Screen. Every line is checked word for word against a public-domain translation, so you can trust who said it.
Lines this widget can show
All of them are short enough to sit under your clock without being cut off.
Anger often comes to us, but we often go to it.
Stand by a stone and revile it, and what will you gain?
All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.
The spirit ought to be brought up for examination daily.
Always believe that something will occur to offend you.
Of things some are in our power, and others are not.
People obey willingly where they are commanded kindly.
All things greatly outgrow their beginnings.
To recover thy life is in thy power.
The comfort of life depends upon conversation.
Open a line into its passage
Read in Context shows the text around a line. Free gets one a day. Pro opens every line.
If a man is mistaken, instruct him kindly and show him his error.
Read the passage around this line
If a man is mistaken, instruct him kindly and show him his error. But if thou art not able, blame thyself, or blame not even thyself.
Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
Read the passage around this line
Do the things external which fall upon thee distract thee? Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around. But then thou must also avoid being carried about the other way; for those too are triflers who have wearied themselves in life by their activity, and yet have no object to which to direct every movement, and, in a word, all their thoughts.
Add it to your Lock Screen
- Lock your iPhone, then touch and hold the Lock Screen.
- Tap Customize, then Lock Screen.
- Tap the area under the clock and choose Quill.
Pick the Stoic collection in the widget’s settings. Free widgets change daily from one collection. Pro widgets change up to hourly and can mix several.
Free forever for basic widgets and 3 of your own lines. Pro from $2.99 a month, with unlimited lines.
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