January 10th Reading from The Daily Stoic - If You Want To Be Steady

"The essence of good is a certain kind of reasoned choice; just as the essence of evil is another kind. What about externals, then? They are only the raw material for our reasoned choice, which finds its own good and evil in working with them. How will it find the good? Not by marveling at the material! For if judgments about the material are straight that makes out choices good, but if those judgments are twisted, our choices turn bad."