Stoic #11
It’s not at all that we have too short a time to live, but that we squander a great deal of it. Life is long enough, and it’s given in sufficient measure to do many great tings if we spend it well. But when it’s poured down the drain of luxury and neglect, when it’s…
Daily Stoic #10
Hold Sacred your capacity for understanding. For in it is all, that our ruling principle won’t allow anything to enter that is either inconsistent with nature or with the constitution of a logical creature. It’s what demands due diligence, care for others, and obedience to God. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 3.9
Daily Stoic #8
Does the light of a lamp shine and keep its glow until its fuel is spent? Why shouldn’t your truth, justice, and self-control shine until you are extinguished? Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 12.15
Daily Stoic #7
Leisure without study is death – a tomb for the living person Seneca, Moral Letters, 82.4
Daily Stoic #6
Being unexpected adds to the weight of a disaster, and being a surprise has never failed to increase a person’s pain. For that reason, nothing should ever be unexpected by us. Our Minds Should be sent out in advance to all things and we shouldn’t just consider the normal course of things, but what could…
Daily Stoic #5
Remember that your ruling reason becomes unconquerable when it rallies and relies on itself, so that it won’t do anything contrary to its own will, even if its position is irrational. How much more unconquerable if its judgments are careful and made rationally? Therefore, the mind freed from passions is an impenetrable fortress – a…
Daily Stoic #5
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, because an artful life requires being prepared to meet and withstand sudden and unexpected attacks. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 7.61
Daily Stoic #4
Remember that to change your mind and to follow someone’s correction are consistent with a free will. For the action is yours alone – to fulfill its purpose in keeping with your impulse and judgement, and yes, with your intelligence. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.16
Quote #2
“There is no room for remorse or fears. If at any moment in this long series of sensations a grey veil deepening into blackness had descended upon the sanctum I should have felt or feared nothing additional. Nature is merciful and does not try her children, man or beast, beyond their compass….For the rest—live dangerously;…
Daily Stoic #3
“Whenever you suffer pain, keep in mind that it’s nothing to be ashamed of and that it can’t degrade your guiding intelligence, nor keep it from acting rationally and for the common good. And in most cases you should be helped by the saying of Epicurus, that pain is never unbearable or unending, so you…