Daily Stoic

The Daily Stoic for October 27th, “We Reap What We Sow”. “Crimes often return to their teacher.” —SENECA, THYESTES, 311 I find today’s stoic meditation a good piece of advice. Specially relevant to entrepreneurs, the concept of “teacher” can be translated to the entrepreneur, while the students can be

The Daily Stoic for October 26th, “Three Parts, One Aim”. “The best and the greatest number of authors have asserted that philosophy consists of three parts: the moral, the natural, and the rational. The first puts the soul in order. The second thoroughly examines the natural order of things. The

The Daily Stoic for October 25th, “Two Tasks”. “What, then, makes a person free from hindrance and self-determining? For wealth doesn’t, neither does high-office, state or kingdom—rather, something else must be found . . . in the case of living, it is the knowledge of how to live.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.

The Daily Stoic for October 24th, “The Fountain Of Goodness”. “Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.59 Goodness isn’t something that is delivered by email. It won’t get to your

The Daily Stoic for October 23rd, “Show The Qualities You Are Made For”. “People aren’t in awe of your sharp mind? So be it. But you have many other qualities you can’t claim to have been deprived of at birth. Display then those qualities in your own power:

The Daily Stoic for October 22nd, “It’s Easy To Get Better, But Better At What?”. “So someone’s good at taking down an opponent, but that doesn’t make them more community-minded, or modest, or well-prepared for any circumstance, or more tolerant of the faults of others.” —MARCUS AURELIUS,