Stoic Solutions Podcast

30/07/2024

"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks." -

29/07/2024

"To make the best of what is in our power, and take the rest as it occurs"

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28/07/2024

Whether you believe in providence or random atoms, what really matters is to be a good human being.

27/07/2024

Sounds to me!

26/07/2024

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present." -

25/07/2024

"sometimes you are deceived and believe that certain things are worth more than their real value"

23/07/2024

"How long I am to exist is not mine to decide, but how long I shall go on existing in my present way is in my own control."

19/07/2024

"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

18/07/2024

Reduce procrastination!

17/07/2024

"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."

16/07/2024

"do not of your own accord make your troubles heavier to bear and burden yourself with complaining"



http://essays.quotidiana.org/seneca/healing_power_of_the_mind/

15/07/2024

"it is foresight that advises one to bear as bravely as possible the things one cannot avoid"

1. If I may begin with a commonplace remark,[1] spring is gradually disclosing itself; but though it is rounding into summer, when you would expect hot weather, it has kept rather cool, and one cannot yet be sure of it. For it often slides back into winter weather. Do you wish to know how uncertain....

14/07/2024

"Every guilty person is his own hangman."



It's a common theme in Stoic writings that punishment following crimes is self-imposed because people feel guilty.

09/07/2024

"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk."

08/07/2024

Sounds to me!

07/07/2024

"the truth will never be discovered if we rest contented with discoveries already made"

"Men [...] before us are not out masters, but our guides."

- Seneca

05/07/2024

"It is absurd to run towards death because you are tired of life, when it is your manner of life that has made you run towards death" - Seneca quoting Epicurus

04/07/2024

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." - Epictetus