Ignacio Nieto Carvajal

The Daily Stoic for March 18th, “Impossible Without Your Consent”. “Today I escaped from the crush of circumstances, or better put, I threw them out, for the crush wasn’t from outside me but in my own assumptions.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 9.13” Today’s stoic suggests that we are

The Daily Stoic for March 17th. “The beauty of choice”: “You are not your body and hair-style, but your capacity for choosing well. If your choices are beautiful, so too will you be.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.1.39b–40a Beauty is something subjective. In spite of the efforts to formalize

The Daily Stoic for March 16th. “That Sacred Part Of You”: “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

The Daily Stoic for March 15th. “The present is all we possess”. “Were you to live three thousand years, or even a countless multiple of that, keep in mind that no one ever loses a life other than the one they are living, and no one ever lives a life

The Daily Stoic for March 14th. “Self-deception is our enemy”. “Zeno would also say that nothing is more hostile to a firm grasp on knowledge than self-deception.” —DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS, 7.23 Now this is an interesting topic. I think most of us fall into the