Showing posts with label Stoics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stoics. Show all posts

Sunday, May 31, 2020

On Cutting the Hair

Daily Dose



From How to Keep Your Cool: Am Ancient Guide to Anger Management, by Seneca, translated by James Romm

IT'S CLEAR

"It's clear in the case of the rich, the nobility, and office holders that whenever something light and empty arises in the mind, it gathers momentum like a ship in a favorable breeze."

From page 41

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Daily Dose


From That One Should Disdain Hardships: The Teachings of a Roman Stoic, by Musonius Rufus, translated by Cora E. Lutz

YOU WILL

"You will earn the respect of all men if you begin by earning the respect of yourself."

From Fragments, 30 Musonius