MOTD #69: “If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, ‘He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would have not mentioned these alone.”5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #61: I begin to speak only when I'm certain what I'll say isn't better left unsaid.5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #62: When we are no longer able to change a situation—we are challenged to change ourselves.5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #50: Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions—not outside.”5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #41: To change your experience, change your opinion. Stop telling yourself that you are a victim and the pain goes away.5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #58: There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter.5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #84: The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #18: Ten thousand times the web could be destroyed, and ten thousand times the spider would rebuild it. There was neither annoyance nor despair, nor any delight, just as it had been for a billion years.”6yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #87: We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise to those who endeavor to injure us;5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #92: The angry man is more like a victim of wrongdoing, provoked by pain to anger.5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #15: “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”6yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #35: As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.6yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #14: We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.6yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #8: A wise man seeks death all his life, and death has no terrors for him.6yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #51: Vices beset us and surround us on every side, and they do not permit us to rise anew and lift up our eyes for the discernment of truth, but they keep us down when once they have overwhelmed us and we are chained to lust.5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #101: If someone asked you how to write your name, would you clench your teeth and spit out the letters one by one? If he lost his temper, would you lose yours as well? Or would you just spell out the individual letters?5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #49: There's almost nothing better than character development. And aiming at having a good character is the highest aim, and it's the aim that will provide the most meaning in your life.5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
[Announcement on the ending of MOTD] & MOTD #80: Curb your desire—don't set your heart on so many things and you will get what you need.5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD 81: To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #2: If you’d only let go of the past, entrust the future to Providence, and guide the present toward reverence and justice.6yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #36: That pain is neither unbearable nor unending, as long as you keep in mind its limits and don't magnify them in your imagination.6yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #5: You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions.6yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #53: I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #60: “No carelessness in your actions. No confusion in your words. No imprecision in your thoughts. No retreating into your own soul, or trying to escape it. No overactivity.5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #55: Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #67: First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #6: What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgments about the things.6yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #66: He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive.5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #11: I can't afford to hate people. I don't have that kind of time.6yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #72: “Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.”5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #79: If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything;5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #43: If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #45: You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last.5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #47: People are our proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put up with them. But when they obstruct our proper tasks, they become irrelevant to us—like sun, wind, animals. Our actions may be impeded by them, but there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions.5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #19: Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.6yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #1: “If it doesn’t harm your character, how can it harm your life?”6yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #39: The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #59: Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #13: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.6yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #104: It is not outside forces that make us feel something, it is what we tell ourselves that create our feelings.5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #4: Now recognize that the difference between years from now and tomorrow is just as small.6yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #77: With regard to whatever objects give you delight, are useful, or are deeply loved, remember to tell yourself of what general nature they are, beginning from the most insignificant things.5yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism
MOTD #23: We should have each judgment ready at the moment when it is needed: judgments on dinner at dinner-time, on the bath at bathing-time, on bed at bedtime.6yr ⋅ Stoic_MOTD ⋅ r/Stoicism