Stoic Meditations

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894. On gourmet food Aug 05, 2021

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How unhappy are they whose appetite can only be aroused by costly food! And the costliness of food depends not upon its delightful flavor and sweetness of taste, but upon its rarity and the difficulty of procuring it.

893. Two precious things we always carry with us Aug 04, 2021

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Whithersoever we betake ourselves two most excellent things will accompany us, namely, a common Nature and our own special virtue.

892. Don't get cocky with Fortune Aug 03, 2021

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No one loses anything by the frowns of Fortune unless they have been deceived by her smiles. The one who has not been puffed up by success, does not collapse after failure.

891. Look out for Fortune's blows Aug 02, 2021

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Always stand as it were on guard, and mark the attacks and charges of Fortune long before she delivers them; she is only terrible to those whom she catches unawares.

890. Happiness regardless of circumstances Jul 30, 2021

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External circumstances have very little importance either for good or for evil: wise persons are neither elated by prosperity nor depressed by adversity.

889. What really makes us wiser Jul 29, 2021

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You have gained nothing by so many misfortunes, if you have not learned how to suffer.

888. On the last path to freedom Jul 28, 2021

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Cicero reminds us that - when life is truly unbearable and we can no longer act virtuously - we have one last escape route, the guarantor of our ultimate freedom: death itself.

887. What to do if you are deaf Jul 27, 2021

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We are all truly deaf with regard to those innumerable languages which we do not understand. Then, as I before referred the blind to the pleasures of hearing, so I may the deaf to the pleasures of sight.

886. Focus on what you can do, not on what you can't Jul 26, 2021

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The reply of Antipater the Cyrenaic to some women who bewailed his being blind, though it is a little too obscene, is not without its significance. “What do you mean?,” said he, “do you think the night can furnish no pleasure?”

885. On exile and cosmopolitanism Jul 23, 2021

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Cicero explains why being sent out of one's country is not a hardship worth worrying about, and tells us that Socrates regarded the whole world as his country.

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