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Ignacio Nieto Carvajal

Let Virtue Shine Bright

Let Virtue Shine Bright

The Daily Stoic for October 1st, “Let Virtue Shine Bright”. “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 We enter the autumnal October with

You Can't Touch Me

You Can't Touch Me

The Daily Stoic for September 30th, “You Can’t Touch Me”. “If you lay violent hands on me, you’ll have my body, but my mind will remain with Stilpo.” ZENO, QUOTED IN DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS, 7.1.24 “Sticks and stones may break my bones…

Your Actual Needs Are Small

Your Actual Needs Are Small

The Daily Stoic for September 29th, “Your Actual Needs Are Small”. “Nothing can satisfy greed, but even a small measure satisfies nature. So it is that the poverty of an exile brings no misfortune, for no place of exile is so barren as not to produce ample support for a

You Hold The Trump Card

You Hold The Trump Card

The Daily Stoic for September 28th, “You Hold The Trump Card”. “How appropriate that the gods put under our control only the most powerful ability that governs all the rest—the ability to make the right use of external appearances—and that they didn’t put anything else under our

What Will Prosperity Reveal?

What Will Prosperity Reveal?

The Daily Stoic for September 27th, “What Will Prosperity Reveal?”. “For even peace itself will supply more reason for worry. Not even safe circumstances will bring you confidence once your mind has been shocked—once it gets in the habit of blind panic, it can’t provide for its own

What Time Off Is For

What Time Off Is For

The Daily Stoic for September 26th, “What Time Off Is For”. “Leisure without study is death—a tomb for the living person.” SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 82.4 Today’s stoic meditation is asking us not to devote our time off to doing nothing. Instead of just lying at the beach,

The Vulnerability Of Dependence

The Vulnerability Of Dependence

The Daily Stoic for September 25th, “The Vulnerability Of Dependence”. “Show me someone who isn’t a slave! One is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to power, and all are slaves to fear. I could name a former Consul who is a slave to a little old