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Explore the timeless teachings of Stoic philosophy. Discover practical tools to live a more fulfilling life. Learn how to cultivate inner peace and resilience.
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“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
September 28, 2025 at 2:41 AM
"Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil. "
-Marcus Aurelius

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September 24, 2025 at 4:11 AM
"Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them."
- Marcus Aurelius

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September 24, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good."
-Marcus Aurelius

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September 19, 2025 at 2:16 AM
"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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September 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."
-Zeno of Citium

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September 13, 2025 at 5:21 AM
"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."
-Chrysippus

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August 12, 2025 at 5:01 AM
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."
-Seneca

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August 12, 2025 at 4:52 AM
"True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have."
-Zeno of Citium

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August 12, 2025 at 4:42 AM
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
-Zeno of Citium

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August 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing, and in the recognition that the journey is the reward."
-Chrysippus

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June 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."
—Johnny Cash
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June 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."
-Epictetus

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June 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"Never shirk the proper dispatch of your duty, no matter if you are freezing or hot, groggy or well-rested, vilified or praised, not even if dying or pressed by other demands."
― Marcus Aurelius

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May 30, 2025 at 8:04 AM
"The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away."
-Chrysippus

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May 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life."
-Marcus Aurelius

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May 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"In the tapestry of life, we cannot choose the threads, but we can choose the pattern we weave with them."
-Chrysippus

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April 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"No human condition is ever permanent; then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune."
-Gaius Musonius Rufus

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April 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."
-Seneca

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April 24, 2025 at 8:43 AM
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."

-Chrysippus

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April 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
April 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."

- Marcus Aurelius

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April 4, 2025 at 3:54 AM
"The wise man avoids appearing before the public and being seen too much."
-Gaius Musonius Rufus

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December 19, 2024 at 5:43 AM
"There has never been a great mind without some degree of madness."
-Seneca

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December 9, 2024 at 11:41 AM
"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."
-Seneca

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December 9, 2024 at 11:40 AM