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Ignacio Nieto Carvajal

Don't Unintentionally Hand Over Your Freedom

Don't Unintentionally Hand Over Your Freedom

The Daily Stoic for March 8th, “Don’t unintentionally hand over your freedom”. “If a person gave away your body to some passerby, you’d be furious. Yet you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along, so they may abuse you, leaving it disturbed and troubled—have you

Don't Trust The Senses

Don't Trust The Senses

The Daily Stoic for March 7th, “Don’t Trust The Senses”. “Heraclitus called self-deception an awful disease and eyesight a lying sense.” —DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS, 9.7 Let me tell you a story that took place many years ago, when I was still living with my

Don't Tell Yourself Stories

Don't Tell Yourself Stories

The Daily Stoic for March the 6th: “Don’t tell yourself stories”. “In public avoid talking often and excessively about your accomplishments and dangers, for however much you enjoy recounting your dangers, it’s not so pleasant for others to hear about your affairs.” —EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 33.14 The other

Cutting Back On The Costly

Cutting Back On The Costly

The Daily Stoic for March 5th. “Cutting back on the costly”: “So, concerning the things we pursue, and for which we vigorously exert ourselves, we owe this consideration—either there is nothing useful in them, or most aren’t useful. Some of them are superfluous, while others aren’t worth

A Walk Through Riga: Big Monuments And Controversial Landmarks

A Walk Through Riga: Big Monuments And Controversial Landmarks

To say that Riga is a beautiful city is an understatement. Full of art-nouveau buildings, wide open soviet-style avenues and impressive monuments, it’s unlike any other European capital. A short walk through Riga its enough to immerse yourself in its very unique character, owing to both its past and

Awareness Is Freedom

Awareness Is Freedom

The Daily Stoic for March 4th. “Awareness is freedom”: “The person is free who lives as they wish, neither compelled, nor hindered, nor limited—whose choices aren’t hampered, whose desires succeed, and who don’t fall into what repels them. Who wishes to live in deception—tripped up, mistaken,

(Dis)Integration

(Dis)Integration

The Daily Stoic for March 3rd: “(Dis)integration”. “These things don’t go together. You must be a unified human being, either good or bad. You must diligently work either on your own reasoning or on things out of your control—take great care with the inside and not what’