The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom

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September 8th: Do not be deceived by fortune

Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

No one is crushed by Fortune, unless they are first deceived by her... those who aren't pompous in good times, don't have their bubbles burst with change. Against either circumstance, the stable person keeps their rational soul invincible, for it's precisely in the good times they prove their strength against adversity. — Seneca, On Consolation to Helvia, 5.4b,5b-6

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April 4th: Don't let this go to your head

Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

Make sure you're not made "Emperor", avoid the imperial stain. It can happen to you, so keep yourself simple, good, pure, saintly, plain, a friend of justice, god-fearing, gracious, affectionate, and strong for your proper work. Fight to remain the person that philosophy wished to make. Revere the gods, and look after each other. Life is short- the fruit of this life is a good character and acts for the common good. —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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May 20th: Quality over quantity

Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

What's the point of having countless books and libraries, whose titles could hardly be read through in a lifetime. The learner is not taught, but burdened by the sheer volume, and it's better to plant the seeds of a few authors than to be scattered about by many. ~Seneca, On Tranquility of Mind, 9.4

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July 16th: Progress of the soul

Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

To what service is my soul committed? Constantly ask yourself this and thoroughly examine yourself by seeing how you relate to that part called the ruling principle. Whose soul do I have now? Do I have that of a child, a youth... a tyrant, a pet, or a wild animal? — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 5.11

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September 5th: Focus on what is yours alone

Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

Remember, then, if you deem what is by nature slavish to be free, and what is not your own to be yours, you will be shackled and miserable, blaming both gods and other people. But if you deem as your own only what is yours, and what belongs to others as truly not yours, then no one will ever be able to coerce or to stop you, you will find no one to blame or accuse, you will do nothing against your will, you will have no enemy, no one will harm you, because no harm can affect you. — Epictetus, Enchiridion, 13

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