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The Truly Educated Aren't Quarrelsome

The Truly Educated Aren't Quarrelsome

The Daily Stoic for June 24th. “The Truly Educated Aren’t Quarrelsome”. “The beautiful and good person neither fights with anyone nor, as much as they are able, permits others to fight . . . this is the meaning of getting an education—learning what is your own affair and what is not.

The Long Way Around

The Long Way Around

The Daily Stoic for June 23rd. “The Long Way Around”. “You could enjoy this very moment all the things you are praying to reach by taking the long way around—if you’d stop depriving yourself of them.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 12.1 This is one of those stoic teachings

The Definition Of Insanity

The Definition Of Insanity

The Daily Stoic for June 22nd. “The Definition Of Insanity”. “If you are defeated once and tell yourself you will overcome, but carry on as before, know in the end you’ll be so ill and weakened that eventually you won’t even notice your mistake and will begin to

Take A Walk

Take A Walk

The Daily Stoic for June 21st. “Take A Walk”. “We should take wandering outdoor walks, so that the mind might be nourished and refreshed by the open air and deep breathing.” —SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND, 17.8 I cannot agree more with today’s stoic excerpt. Taking walks is

Calm Is Contagious

Calm Is Contagious

The Daily Stoic for June 20th. “Calm Is Contagious”. “If then it’s not that the things you pursue or avoid are coming at you, but rather that you in a sense are seeking them out, at least try to keep your judgment of them steady, and they too will

Stay Focused On The Present

Stay Focused On The Present

The Daily Stoic for June 19th, “Stay Focused On The Present”. “Don’t let your reflection on the whole sweep of life crush you. Don’t fill your mind with all the bad things that might still happen. Stay focused on the present situation and ask yourself why it’s

Prepared And Active

Prepared And Active

The Daily Stoic for June 18th. “Prepared and active”. “Let Fate find us prepared and active. Here is the great soul—the one who surrenders to Fate. The opposite is the weak and degenerate one, who struggles with and has a poor regard for the order of the world, and