Daily Stoic 🗿If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
— Epictetus
RGMarch 27th: Pay What Things Are Worth
“Diogenes of Sinope said we sell things of great value for things of very little, and vice versa.”
—Diogenes Laertius, Lives Of The Eminent Philosophers, 6.2.35b
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March 26th: What Rules Your Ruling Reason?
“How does your ruling reason manage itself? For in that is the key to everything. Whatever else remains, be it in the power of your choice or not, is but a corpse and smoke.”
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 12.33
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There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
March 25th: Wealth and Freedom Are Free
“…freedom isn’t secured by filling up on your heart’s desire but by removing your desire.”
—Epictetus, Discourses, 4.1.175
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
— Viktor Frankl
March 24th: There Is Philosophy in Everything
“Eat like a human being, drink like a human being, dress up, marry, have children, get politically active—suffer abuse, bear with a headstrong brother, father, son, neighbor, or companion. Show us these things so we can see that you truly have learned from the philosophers.”
—Epictetus, Discourses, 3.21.5–6
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
— Thomas Jefferson
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March 23rd: The Straitjacketed Soul
“The diseases of the rational soul are long-standing and hardened vices, such as greed and ambition—they have put the soul in a straitjacket and have begun to be permanent evils inside it. To put it briefly, this sickness is an unrelenting distortion of judgment, so things that are only mildly desirable are vigorously sought after.”
—Seneca, Moral Letters, 75.11
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