Daily Stoic

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

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

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

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 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

The Daily Stoic for September 24th, “It Could Happen To You”. “Being unexpected adds to the weight of a disaster, and being a surprise has never failed to increase a person’s pain. For that reason, nothing should ever be unexpected by us. Our minds should be sent out in