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

“how to be a worthy guest at the table of the gods,”

We can still live well without becoming slaves to luxury.

Stoicism was a school of philosophy founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early third century BC. Its name is derived from the Greek stoa, meaning porch,

But you must reclaim the ability to abstain because within it is your clarity and self-control.

you are driven into failure—or worse, into madness by the oblivion of directionlessness.

Defeatism won’t get you anywhere (except defeat).

question the emotions and beliefs and even language that others take for granted.

What if, where others were upset, envious, excited, possessive, or greedy, you were objective, calm, and clearheaded? Can you envision that?

today when you try to extend your reach outward—that it’s much better and more appropriately directed inward.