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.

there is nothing good or bad outside my own reasoned choice

Seriously—what you take for granted, others wouldn’t even think to dream of.

No one can lose either the past or the future, for how can someone be deprived of what’s not theirs?”

ONE DAY IT WILL ALL MAKE SENSE

“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.