Ignacio Nieto Carvajal

The Daily Stoic for December 5th, “The Benefits Of Sobering Thoughts”. “Keep death and exile before your eyes each day, along with everything that seems terrible—by doing so, you’ll never have a base thought nor will you have excessive desire.” —EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 21 In January the 1st, we

The Daily Stoic for December 4th, “You Don’t Own That”. “Anything that can be prevented, taken away, or coerced is not a person’s own—but those things that can’t be blocked are their own.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.24.3 The other day, I was reading about nomads

The Daily Stoic for December 3rd, “The Philosopher Is An Artisan Of Life And Death”. “Philosophy does not claim to get a person any external possession. To do so would be beyond its field. As wood is to the carpenter, bronze to the sculptor, so our own lives are the

The Daily Stoic for December 2nd, “Don’t Mind Me, I’m Only Dying”. “Let each thing you would do, say or intend be like that of a dying person.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 2.11.1 “What would you do if you found out tomorrow that you had cancer?” That’

The Daily Stoic for December 1st, “Pretend Today Is The End”. “Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day. . . . The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each

The Daily Stoic for November 30th, “Follow The Logos”. “The person who follows reason in all things will have both leisure and a readiness to act—they are at once both cheerful and self-composed.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 10.12b The logos. The stoics believed there was a powerful force governing