The Daily Stoic

“as Ecclesiastes reminds us, there is no new thing. Under the sun”

“Centuries later the historian Francesco Giacardini observed much the same thing in his maxims. And reflections”

“But we can see from his letters to Lucilius that he's talking about something Much smaller. Much easier to obtain. He was talking about quotes”

“from the tenth anniversary of the Daily Stoic”

“We have two quotes from Seneca's moral letters and one from the discourses”

“I get this all the time because if ego is the enemy. People go, What do I do about my boss's ego”

“I wrote this book, The Obstacles Away, and I think people it's been it's meant something to people”

“there's a line in meditations which whenever I do military talks I always bring up'cause it's one of the only instances where Mark Surelius who was a soldier specifically talks about Fighting”

“And their free eighty thousand hours career guide is full of concrete practical advice”

“the Bhagavad Gita is the Hindu is a Hindu. It's one of the Hindu holy books”

“It's like the Odyssey. It's like the Odyssey, basically”

“That's Belle Tyndall Riley, author of The Sacred Ache”

“A biblical scholar from rural Wales who grew up when the book The God Delusion was topping the charts”

“Because at the time The books topping the charts with the God delusion, why God's not great, why religion poisons everything”

“Courage is calling, discipline is destiny, right thing right now and wisdom. Ticks. Work. So it's a long series for me, seven years of work and then I've just been on the speaking tour talking about them”

“Courage is calling, discipline is destiny, right thing right now and wisdom. Ticks. Work. So it's a long series for me, seven years of work and then I've just been on the speaking tour talking about them”

“I believe Epictetus said this but I think Marcus Surellius also reflected on it in meditations”

“Zeno wrote A thing called Xeno's Republic, his version, his response to Plato's”

“They they just recently found Off of a mummy. In uh in Egypt. A line From the Odyssey”

“after the strategies of war, I had actually my age and I were actually gonna be doing the Sublime”

“I was reading Will of Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop”

“I had a story in there from Franz Kafka. A very unknown story called The Burrow”

“I read a book researching for this one. About the Aztecs. And it was called Aztec Philosophy”

“Have you read uh Under the Jaguar Sun by Talo Cavino”

“It's called The Emerald Mile, and it's about these people who are trying to set the record rafting through the Grand Canyon”

“in Meditations of Marcus Aurelius when he talks about wine”

“We're reading uh for a book club, we're reading History of the Peloponnesian War”

“a book I didn't like, but had some interesting things called The Philosophical Baby”

“as Cor McCarthy writes. In the road”

“He reminded himself in those very same pages of meditation”

“He has a new book called Be On That Hill. which is the best of his journalism over the year that's won every award you can imagine”

“And their free eighty thousand hours career guide is full of concrete practical advice”

“Surrender yourself completely to Clothho, Marcus Realius reminded himself. Let her spin your web out of whatever events she wishes”

“Newton grab the Daily Sto tenth anniversary edition in signed and numbered first edition hardcovers, which we have at uh dailystoic.com slash DS ten”

“Mark Mark's in Meditation he says, um let me see if I can find it. This meeting sounds great, but I'm actually gonna die”

“In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius had an interesting quote”

“And their free eighty thousand hours career guide is full of concrete practical advice”

“in a few years later he he publishes his first book of essays. He actually invents the essay”

“That's what this idea of the obstacle is the way means”

“Marx Arielus writes in Meditations, In the same way an emerald or gold or purple might always proclaim whatever anyone does or says I must be what I am and show my true colors”

“So it went for Helvidius, a senator who we profile in lives of the Stoics, when the Emperor Vespasian tried to stop him from criticizing him”

“And their free eighty thousand hours career guide is full of concrete practical advice”

“This month is the ten year anniversary of both the Daily Stoic Book and Daily stoke sort of website, the newsletter”

“You know, obviously in my book about stillness, I I I drew a lot from the eastern tradition”

“from Confucius to Uh the Bagfard Guita”

“Seneca Writes three essays that are Called his consolations. series”

“That's what you see in meditations. You see Marcus Aurelius fighting to be a bright light. in the dark time”

“There's a great line in Milan Kandera's book, uh the unbearable lightness of being where this woman they're living in a time of communism”

“If you read uh Brian Burroughs Days of Rage, there's a crazy stat in there”

“You can use the Daily Stoic journal, for instance like This is mine”

“Speaking on like Uh the the book uh Daily Dad”

“Jacko Willink had a uh a book out Discipline is Destiny and uh he had Ryan out there”

“I found Ryan's work through ego is the enemy and it changed everything”

“Sweetheart, you have to read the N Caradian, you have to read the discourses”

“you have to read the N Caradian, you have to read the discourses”

“That's epictetus in Caridian eight”

“And then from the Discourses one twelve she says To be truly educated means This Learning to wish that each thing happens exactly. As it does”

“Marcus Aurelius' Meditation nine six All you need are these”

“I talk about this a little bit in the courage book”

“She wrote a great business book for Portfolio. We had the same editor”

“One of my favorite books is very underwritten. It's called The Hidden Hand Presidency. And it's all about how Eisenhower dealt with McCarthy without ever specifically talking about McCarthy”

“These are all ideas that I talk about in the Daily Stoic, which is really three hundred and sixty five uh lessons from the stoics that can apply to your life”

“We know Marcus Releas kept a little book in addition to meditations called like the the lives of Greeks and Romans”

“My book Lives of the Stoics, which is all about the lessons we can learn from the Stoics in practice”

“My friend Cal Newport wrote this great book a few years ago called Deep Work”

“In the Bible they talk about how returning Kindness to cruelty is like in a way uh the ultimate punishment”

“There's that book I I read it to my kids many times, The Boy, the Fox, the Horse, and the Mole”