Believing in yourself and trusting that you are on the right path, and not being in doubt by following the myriad footpaths of those...Read More -
To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden. — Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus, 231-232 Read More -
Anything that must yet be done, virtue can do with courage and promptness. For anyone would call it a sign of foolishness for one...Read More -
When philosophy is wielded with arrogance and stubbornly, it is the cause for the ruin of many. Let philosophy scrape off our own faults,...Read More -
Where are your maxims of philosophy, or the preparation of so many years' study against evils to come? — Seneca — Read...Read More -
For even peace itself will supply more reason to worry. Not even safe circumstances will bring you confidence once your mind has been shocked...Read More -
Leisure without study is death — a tomb for the living person. — Seneca, Moral Letters, 82.4 (resource) Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on...Read More -
Show me someone who isn't a slave to lust, another to greed, another to power, and all are slaves to fear. I could name...Read More -
I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent — no one can...Read More -
It's ruinous for the soul to be anxious about the future and miserable in advance of misery, engulfed by anxiety that the things it...Read More -
