The Daily Stoic

“power doesn’t corrupt, it reveals.”

We’re not trying to ace tests or impress teachers. We are reading and studying to live, to be good human beings—always and forever.

Everyone had a job—a specific duty. Even people who did bad things—they were doing their job of being evil because evil is a part of life.

He was much more interested in hearing what the other person had to say than making sure he was heard or—as most of us insist upon—winning the argument.

“Slavery resides under marble and gold.”

Some of them are superfluous, while others aren’t worth that much. But we don’t discern this and see them as free, when they cost us dearly.

How many of these are self-imposed? How many of them are truly necessary? Are you as free as you think?

We underestimate our capabilities just as much and just as dangerously as we overestimate other abilities.

Don’t set your heart on so many things,” says Epictetus. Focus. Prioritize.

We should enjoy this brief time we have on earth—not be enslaved to emotions that make us miserable and dissatisfied