Daily Stoic

Daily meditations to build your Inner Citadel. 🏛️ Wisdom from the Great Masters to endure and thrive.

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"Hecato says, ‘I can teach you a love potion made without any drugs, herbs, or special spell—if you would be loved, love.’"

— Seneca

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...voice, a flash in your eyes—just as the beloved sees it all in the lover’s glance. In short, the straightforward and good person should be like a smelly goat—you know when they are in the room with you."

— Marcus Aurelius

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"How rotten and fraudulent when people say they intend to ‘give it to you straight.’ What are you up to, dear friend? It shouldn’t need your announcement, but be readily seen, as if written on your forehead, heard in the ring of your...

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...other. Justice so that you’ll speak the truth freely and without evasion, and so that you’ll act only as the law and value of things require."

— Marcus Aurelius

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"Leave the past behind, let the grand design take care of the future, and instead only rightly guide the present to reverence and justice. Reverence so that you’ll love what you’ve been allotted, for nature brought you both to each...

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"When the standards have been set, things are tested and weighed. And the work of philosophy is just this, to examine and uphold the standards, but the work of a truly good person is in using those standards when they know them."

— Epictetus

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...as wisdom itself, when you consider how sure-footed and effortless the works of understanding and knowledge are."

— Marcus Aurelius

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"Yes, getting your wish would have been so nice. But isn’t that exactly why pleasure trips us up? Instead, see if these things might be even nicer—a great soul, freedom, honesty, kindness, saintliness. For there is nothing so pleasing...

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"The person who does wrong, does wrong to themselves. The unjust person is unjust to themselves—making themselves evil."

— Marcus Aurelius

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— Seneca

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"It’s in keeping with Nature to show our friends affection and to celebrate their advancement, as if it were our very own. For if we don’t do this, virtue, which is strengthened only by exercising our perceptions, will no longer endure in us."

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"Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue."

— Zeno

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"That which isn’t good for the hive, isn’t good for the bee."

— Marcus Aurelius

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...another according to their tension of movement, their sympathetic stirrings, and the unity of all substance."

— Marcus Aurelius

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"Meditate often on the interconnectedness and mutual interdependence of all things in the universe. For in a sense, all things are mutually woven together and therefore have an affinity for each other—for one thing follows after...

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...increased or diminished."

— Seneca

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"But the wise person can lose nothing. Such a person has everything stored up for themselves, leaving nothing to Fortune, their own goods are held firm, bound in virtue, which requires nothing from chance, and therefore can’t be either...

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"Does the light of a lamp shine and keep its glow until its fuel is spent? Why shouldn’t your truth, justice, and self-control shine until you are extinguished?"

— Marcus Aurelius

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"You Can’t Touch Me"

— Zeno

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"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 person."

— Seneca

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