Stoic Meditations

Epictetus advises us to live the life we have, in the place we are, rather than indulge in regret for what we may have lost. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Epictetus gives us a very practical pointer about how to incorporate Stoic precepts in our lives. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

There is a proper time for everything, including enjoying your loved ones. Keep it in mind, before they're gone. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Epictetus tells us what happens when a person is truly free. Tyrants begin to tremble. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

At Olympia you do not want anything else; you are content to have been crowned at Olympia. Does it seem to you so small and worthless a thing to be noble and good and happy? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

How can you wish at the same time to grow old and not to see the death of any that you love? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Friends, the school of a philosopher is a hospital. When you leave, you should have suffered, not enjoyed yourself. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

‘He’s a clever young man and a fan of rhetoric.’ ‘How do you know?’ ‘He praises me.’ Oh, well, that proves it, of course. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Let us play our roles in life well. Not acting lik a sheep, gently but at random; nor destructively, like a wild beast. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Look, can you be forced to assent to what appears to you wrong?’ ‘No.’ ‘Or to dissent from the plain truth?’ ‘No.’ ‘Then you see you do have within you a share of freedom.’ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

My mind represents for me my medium – like wood to a carpenter, or leather to a shoemaker. The goal in my case is the correct use of impressions. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

So you can talk the right talk about Stoicism. But do you also walk the right walk? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Those who have learnt precepts and nothing more are anxious to give them out at once, just as men with weak stomachs vomit food. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

I have a bad neighbor – bad, that is, for himself. For me, though, he is good: he exercises my powers of fairness and sociability. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

A boxer derives the greatest advantage from his sparring partner – and my accuser is my sparring partner. He trains me in patience, civility and even temper. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

For God’s sake, stop honoring externals, quit turning yourself into the tool of mere matter, or of people who can supply you or deny you those material things. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

‘Being healthy is good, being sick is bad.’ No, my friend: enjoying health in the right way is good; making bad use of your health is bad. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

When people say that the unjust person is better off because he has more money, what exactly is their system of values? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Keep well out of the sun, then, so long as your principles are as pliant as wax. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Are you proud of things for which you don't really deserve credit? Or for things that are not important? Reflect on this, and set your priorities straight. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support