Forged Stoic Phone Wallpapers

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Sea rescue — the Forged Stoic in a small boat pulling a drowning man from a stormy sea, Legacy Dark oil painting, minimal slide with no story text
Newest · Quote + Painting

Cast Out All Trouble — The Sea Rescue

“To-day I have got out of all trouble, or rather I have cast out all trouble, for it was not outside, but within and in my opinions.”

— Marcus Aurelius · Meditations IX.13

The first wallpaper built under the new slide structure: the clean painting opens the post, and the quote version is the full iPhone wallpaper (1290×2796) with the quote on the art. Preview above shows the minimal painting.

Amor Fati — the Forged Stoic reclining on rocks under a dark blue night sky with the Seneca quote over the sky, Legacy Dark oil painting
Quote + Painting

Amor Fati

AMOR FATI — love of one’s fate

“That man is happiest, and is secure in his own possession of himself, who can await the morrow without apprehension. When a man has said: ‘I have lived!’, every morning he arises he receives a bonus.”

— Seneca · Letters to Lucilius XII.9

The discipline of embracing every event as necessary for your path. Take it with the words on it, or the clean painting alone.

Vision of a king — the Forged Stoic in profile holding a sword before his army, with the Marcus Aurelius quote over the armor, Legacy Dark oil painting
Quote + Painting

Vision of a King

Vision of a king.

“Thy present opinion founded on understanding, and thy present conduct directed to social good, and thy present disposition of contentment with everything which happens—that is enough.”

— Marcus Aurelius · Meditations IX.6

Take it with the words on it, or the clean painting alone.

Every Man A Slave — quote slide: a chained king bowed on his throne with the Seneca quote over the painting
Quote + Painting

Every Man A Slave

“Show me a man who is not a slave; one is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all men are slaves to fear.”

— Seneca · Letters to Lucilius XLVII.17

Take it with the words on it, or the clean painting alone — no words on the art.

Is This The Condition — quote slide with the Seneca quote over a dark painted detail
Quote + Painting

Is This The Condition

“Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with coarse and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ‘Is this the condition that I feared?’”

— Seneca · Letters to Lucilius XVIII.5

Take it with the words on it, or the clean painting alone — no words on the art.

Wipe Out The Judgment — quote slide with the Marcus Aurelius quote over a dark fishing-net painting
Quote + Painting

Wipe Out The Judgment

“If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it. And it is in thy power to wipe out this judgment now.”

— Marcus Aurelius · Meditations VIII.47

Take it with the words on it, or the clean painting alone — no words on the art.