Stoicism rests on a handful of core principles: that virtue is the only true good, that some things are in our control and most are not, that we should live in…
Epictetus never wrote anything down. His quotes survive only because a student recorded his lectures in the Discourses and the Enchiridion. The result is the…
Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher who lived from around 50 to 135 AD. Born into slavery, he was freed as a young man and went on to found his own school. He…
Let me start with something I have noticed my whole life. We human beings absolutely lose our minds when we hear the word free. I have watched composed, rational…
Stoicism is a philosophy, not a religion. It has no church, no clergy, no scripture you must believe, and no promise of heaven. It does speak of the divine, but as…
Stoicism is not toxic, but a popular distortion of it can be. The real philosophy is not about bottling up your feelings, refusing help, or grinding yourself into…
