<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Quoture reading notes</title><link>https://quoture.app/blog/</link><description>Famous quotations, their context, and their meaning.</description><language>en</language><item><title>Cultivate Our Garden: What Voltaire Means in Candide</title><link>https://quoture.app/blog/cultivate-our-garden-meaning/</link><guid>https://quoture.app/blog/cultivate-our-garden-meaning/</guid><description>The garden at the end of Candide is more than self-care. Explore Voltaire's criticism of easy optimism, the final scene, and the value of shared work.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Epictetus on Control: What Is Actually Up to You?</title><link>https://quoture.app/blog/epictetus-what-you-can-control/</link><guid>https://quoture.app/blog/epictetus-what-you-can-control/</guid><description>A plain-language guide to Epictetus's distinction between what is up to us and what is not, with practical examples and the limits of the control slogan.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Famous Quote or Misattribution? How to Check the Source</title><link>https://quoture.app/blog/famous-quote-or-misattribution/</link><guid>https://quoture.app/blog/famous-quote-or-misattribution/</guid><description>Check a famous quotation before you share it. Learn to distinguish an exact quote, a translation, a paraphrase, a fictional speaker, and an unsupported attribution.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Read Philosophy Quotes Without Losing the Meaning</title><link>https://quoture.app/blog/how-to-read-philosophy-quotes/</link><guid>https://quoture.app/blog/how-to-read-philosophy-quotes/</guid><description>A practical method for understanding a philosophy quote: identify the speaker, locate the source, read the argument, and explain the thought in your own words.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>I Think, Therefore I Am: Descartes in Plain Language</title><link>https://quoture.app/blog/i-think-therefore-i-am-meaning/</link><guid>https://quoture.app/blog/i-think-therefore-i-am-meaning/</guid><description>Descartes's famous phrase is about certainty, not positive thinking. Follow the doubt behind the cogito and understand what the argument does and does not prove.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Marcus Aurelius's Bee and Hive: What the Quote Means</title><link>https://quoture.app/blog/marcus-aurelius-bee-and-hive/</link><guid>https://quoture.app/blog/marcus-aurelius-bee-and-hive/</guid><description>Marcus Aurelius links the good of a bee to its hive. Read the Meditations passage, its social meaning, and why it is more than a slogan about teamwork.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>God Is Dead: Nietzsche, the Shadow, and What Remains</title><link>https://quoture.app/blog/nietzsche-god-is-dead-meaning/</link><guid>https://quoture.app/blog/nietzsche-god-is-dead-meaning/</guid><description>Nietzsche's phrase is more than a declaration of atheism. Read aphorism 108 of The Gay Science and the image of a shadow that outlasts belief.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Seneca on Imagination and Reality: Reading Letter 13</title><link>https://quoture.app/blog/seneca-imagination-and-reality/</link><guid>https://quoture.app/blog/seneca-imagination-and-reality/</guid><description>What does Seneca mean when he separates imagined fears from present trouble? Read Letter 13 in context, without dismissing real danger or distress.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Unexamined Life: What Socrates Is Asking Us to Do</title><link>https://quoture.app/blog/socrates-unexamined-life/</link><guid>https://quoture.app/blog/socrates-unexamined-life/</guid><description>Understand the unexamined life in Plato's Apology. Explore the trial setting, Socratic questioning, and why examination means more than constant self-criticism.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stoic Quotes Explained: Read the Idea, Not Just the Line</title><link>https://quoture.app/blog/stoic-quotes-explained/</link><guid>https://quoture.app/blog/stoic-quotes-explained/</guid><description>Understand Stoic quotes through their context. Learn what Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus mean by control, judgment, and responsibility to other people.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>