October 31st Reading from The Daily Stoic - You Were Born Good

"The human being is born with an inclination toward virtue."

~ Musonius Rufus, Lectures, 2.7.1-2

October 30th Reading from The Daily Stoic - Who Gets The Lion's Share?

"Aren't you ashamed to reserve for yourself only the remnants of your life and to dedicate to wisdom only that time that can't be directed to business?"

~ Seneca, On the Brevity of Life, 3.5b

October 29th Reading from The Daily Stoic - Character Is Fate

"Each person acquires their own character, but their official roles are designated by chance. You should invite some to your table because they are deserving, others because they may come to deserve it."

~ Seneca, Moral Letters, 47.15b

October 28th Reading from The Daily Stoic - We Were Made For Each Other

"You'll more quickly find an earthly thing kept from the earth than you will a person cut off from  other human beings."

~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 9.9.3

October 27th Reading from The Daily Stoic - We Reap What We Sow

"Crimes often return to their teacher."

~ Seneca, Thyestes, 311

October 26th Reading from The Daily Stoic - Three Parts, One Aim

"The best and the greatest number of authors have asserted that philosophy consists of three parts: the moral, the natural, and the rational. The first puts the soul in order. The second thoroughly examines the natural order of things. The third inquires into the proper meaning of words, and their arrangements and proofs which keep falsehoods from creeping in to replace truth."

~ Seneca, Moral Letters, 89.9

October 25th Reading from The Daily Stoic - Two Tasks

"What, then, makes a person free from hindrance and self-determining? For wealth doesn't, neither does high office, state or kingdom - rather, something else must be found . . . in the case of living, it is the knowledge of how to live."

~ Epictetus, Discourses, 4.1.62-64