The Stoic Magazine Library

We need not just to empty or free up our minds, but even more to fill them with philosophical principles. ...We need to be continually turning them over in our minds, so we really understand them when they’re needed.

Life calculated and “integrated” in a Stoic manner may truly be the most satisfying of all. Can’t we just call it a pleasure?

If we look at examples and teachings provided by the classic Stoics, indifference to others isn’t remotely how they would suggest we deal with their travails and difficulties.

For us non-sages, we are going to fail sometimes, feel bad about that, and then hopefully use that bad feeling to steer us away from that failing.