Degrees of Indifference
Next follows an exposition of the difference between things; for if we maintained that all things were absolutely indifferent, the whole of life would be thrown into confusion, as it is by Aristo, and no …
Category: Basics
The Dichotomy of Control
There are things which are within our power, and there are things which are beyond our power. Within our power are opinion, aim, desire, aversion, and, in one word, whatever affairs are our own. Beyond …
Memento Mori
When giving your wife or child a kiss, repeat to yourself, “I am kissing a mortal.” Then you won’t be so distraught if they are taken from you. Epictetus We were recently discussing the Four …
Self-Control
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and …
Courage
Let us be brave in the face of adversity. Seneca The past few weeks, we have been examining the four primary Stoic Virtues. We previously discussed Wisdom and Justice. We continue our exploration of the …
Justice
In my previous two posts, I discussed the Four Virtues of Stoicism in general and then examined Wisdom in a little more detail. This post focuses on another of the Virtues: Justice. Justice lies at …
Wisdom
In a previous post, we discussed the Four Virtues of Stoicism – Wisdom, Justice, Courage, and Self-Control. This post and the next three will focus on each of the Four Virtues in more detail, beginning …
The Stoic Virtues
If, at some point in your life, you should come across anything better than justice, prudence, self-control, courage—than a mind satisfied that it has succeeded in enabling you to act rationally, and satisfied to accept …
Amor Fati
My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still …
Stoic ≠ stoic
Probably no skill is more important to an attorney than the ability to precisely and succinctly define terms. As my first post, I will begin to define Stoicism by explaining what it is not. When …