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“So when you hear that even life and the like are indifferent, don’t become apathetic; and by the same token, when you’re advised to care about them, don’t become superficial and conceive a passion for externals.” - Epictetus --- Hello friends! Thanks for listening. Want to take these principles to the next level? Join the Stoic Coffee House Community !  Stop by the website at stoic.coffee wh...

"Where does the good lie? ‘In the will.’ And evil? ‘Also in the will.’ And things neither good nor bad – ‘... lie in whatever is external to the will.’" - Epictetus --- Hello friends! Thanks for listening. Want to take these principles to the next level? Join the Stoic Coffee House Community !  Stop by the website at stoic.coffee where you can sign up for our newsletter, and buy som...

“Is any man afraid of change? What can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature? And can you take a hot bath unless the wood for the fire undergoes a change? And can you be nourished unless the food undergoes a change? And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is ju...

“What illusion about myself do I entertain?” - Epictetus --- Hello friends! Thanks for listening. Want to take these principles to the next level? Join the Stoic Coffee House Community !  Stop by the website at stoic.coffee where you can sign up for our newsletter, and buy some great looking shirts and hoodies at the Stoic Coffee Shop . Like the theme song? You can find it here from my alter...

“Settle on the type of person you want to be and stick to it, whether alone or in company. “ - Epictetus --- Hello friends! Thanks for listening. Want to take these principles to the next level? Join the Stoic Coffee House Community !  Stop by the website at stoic.coffee where you can sign up for our newsletter, and buy some great looking shirts and hoodies at the Stoic Coffee Shop . Like the...

“The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.” - Epictetus --- Hello friends! Thanks for listening. Want to take these principles to the next level? Join the Stoic Coffee House Community !  Stop by the website at stoic.coffee where you can sign up for our newsletter, and buy some great looking shirts and hoodies at the Stoic Coffee Shop . Like the theme song? You ca...

“For what does reason purport to do? ‘Establish what is true, eliminate what is false and suspend judgement in doubtful cases.’ ... What else does reason prescribe? ‘To accept the consequence of what has been admitted to be correct.’“ - Epictetus --- Hello friends! Thanks for listening. Want to take these principles to the next level? Join the Stoic Coffee House Community !  Stop by the websi...

“What makes for freedom and fluency in the practice of writing? Knowledge of how to write. The same goes for the practice of playing an instrument. It follows that, in the conduct of life, there must be a science to living well.” - Epictetus --- Hello friends! Thanks for listening. Want to take these principles to the next level? Join the Stoic Coffee House Community !  Stop by the website at...

“So make a practice at once of saying to every strong impression: ‘An impression is all you are, not the source of the impression.’ Then test and assess it with your criteria, but one primarily: ask, ‘Is this something that is, or is not, in my control?’” - Epictetus --- Hello friends! Thanks for listening. Want to take these principles to the next level? Join the Stoic Coffee House Community !&nb...

“If you learn that someone is speaking ill of you, don’t try to defend yourself against the rumours; respond instead with, ‘Yes, and he doesn’t know the half of it, because he could have said more.’” - Epictetus --- Hello friends! Thanks for listening. Want to take these principles to the next level? Join the Stoic Coffee House Community !  Stop by the website at stoic.coffee where you can si...

"If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance. " - Marcus Aurelius --- Hello friends! Thanks for listening. Want to take these principles to the next level? Join the Stoic Coffee House Community !  Stop by the website...

“People to whom such things are still denied come to imagine that everything good will be theirs if only they could acquire them. Then they get them: and their longing is unchanged, their anxiety is unchanged, their disgust is no less, and they still long for whatever is lacking. Freedom is not achieved by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.” - Epictetus --- Hello friends! Thanks for listeni...

“Do not be disgusted, discouraged, or dissatisfied if you do not succeed in doing everything according to right principles; but when you have failed, return again, and be content if the greater part of what you do is consistent with man’s nature. “ - Marcus Aurelius --- Hello friends! Thanks for listening. Want to take these principles to the next level? Join the Stoic Coffee House Community !&nbs...

“In your conversation, don’t dwell at excessive length on your own deeds or adventures. Just because you enjoy recounting your exploits doesn’t mean that others derive the same pleasure from hearing about them.” - Epictetus --- Hello friends! Thanks for listening. Want to take these principles to the next level? Join the Stoic Coffee House Community !  Stop by the website at stoic.coffee wher...

"To care for all men is according to man’s nature; and man should value the opinion only of those who openly live according to nature. " - Marcus Aurelius --- Hello friends! Thanks for listening. Want to take these principles to the next level? Join the Stoic Coffee House Community !  Stop by the website at stoic.coffee where you can sign up for our newsletter, and buy some great lo...

“When someone criticizes you, they do so because they believe they are right. They can only go by their views, not yours. If their views are wrong, it is they who will suffer the consequences. Keeping this in mind, treat your critics with compassion. When you are tempted to get back at them, remind yourself, ‘They did what seemed to them to be the right thing to do.’” - Epictetus --- Hello friends...

"Acquire the contemplative way of seeing how all things change into one another, and constantly attend to it, and exercise yourself in this part of philosophy. For nothing is so well suited to produce magnanimity." - Marcus Aurelius --- Hello friends! Thanks for listening. Want to take these principles to the next level? Join the Stoic Coffee House Community !  Stop by the website a...

“If someone bathes quickly, don’t say he doesn’t bathe properly, say he bathes quickly. If someone drinks a lot, don’t say he is a drunk, say he drinks a lot. Unless you know their reasons for their actions how can you be sure of your negative judgment of them? Not judging others too quickly will save you from misperceiving their actions.” - Epictetus --- Hello friends! Thanks for listening. Want...

“When you confine yourself to only those things that are under your control, you cannot be defeated. Don’t be fooled by outward appearances. People with more prestige, power, or some other distinction are not necessarily happier because of what they have. There is no reason to be envious or jealous of anyone. If you lead a rational life, the good lies within you. Our concern should be our freedom,...

“Remember that for every challenge you face, you have the resources within you to cope with that challenge. If you are inappropriately attracted to someone, you will find you have the resource of self-restraint. When you have pain, you have the resource of endurance. When you are insulted, you have the resource of patience. If you start thinking along these lines, soon you will find that you don’t...

“If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now.” - Marcus Aurelius --- Hello friends! Thanks for listening. Want to take these principles to the next level? Join the Stoic Coffee House Community !  Stop by the website at stoic.coffee where you can sign up for our newsletter...

“He who fears death fears either the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if you shall have no sensation, neither will you feel any harm; and if you will acquire another kind of sensation, you will be a different kind of living being and you will not cease to live.” - Marcus Aurelius --- Hello friends! Thanks for listening. Want to take these principles to the next level? Join t...

“No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.” - Marcus Aurelius --- Hello friends! Thanks for listening. Want to take these principles to the next level? Join the Stoic Coffee House Community !  Stop by the website at stoic.coffee where you can sign up for our newsletter, and buy some great looking shirts and hoodies at the Stoic Coffee Shop . Like th...

"If a man objects to truths that are all too evident, it is no easy task finding arguments that will change his mind. This is proof neither of his own strength nor of his teacher’s weakness. When someone caught in an argument hardens to stone, there is just no more reasoning with them." - Epictetus --- Hello friends! Thanks for listening. Want to take these principles to the next level?...

“A brief existence is common to all things, and yet you avoid and pursue all things as if they would be eternal.” - Marcus Aurelius --- Hello friends! Thanks for listening. Want to take these principles to the next level? Join the Stoic Coffee House Community !  Stop by the website at stoic.coffee where you can sign up for our newsletter, and buy some great looking shirts and hoodies at the S...