The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius

Study, yes, but go live your life as well. It’s the only way that you’ll actually understand what any of it means.

once a year he was allowed a single visitor—for thirty minutes.

Nassim Taleb has warned of the “narrative fallacy”—the tendency to assemble unrelated events of the past into stories.

“Character,” Joan Didion would write in one of her best essays, “the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life—is the source from which self-respect springs.”

CULTIVATING INDIFFERENCE WHERE OTHERS GROW PASSION

The same word can mean a cruel slur or a pile of sticks.

there is only one path to happiness, and that is in giving up all outside of your sphere of choice, regarding nothing else as your possession, surrendering all else to God and Fortune.”

“The universe is change. Life is opinion.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 4.3.4b

situations require our participation, context, and categorization in order to be “bad.”