August 27th Reading from The Daily Stoic (Round 2) - "Laugh, or Cry?"

"Hearclitus would shed tears whenever he went out in public - Democritus laughed. One saw the whole as a parade of miseries, the other of follies. And so, we should take a lighter view of things and bear them with an easy spirit, for it is more human to laugh at life than to lament it."
~ Seneca, On Tranquility of Mind, 15.2

If you don't know whether to laugh or cry, why not choose to laugh?

March 7th Reading from The Daily Stoic - Don't Trust The Senses

"Heraclitus called self-deception an awful disease and eyesight a lying sense."

~ Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, 9.7

February 14th Reading from The Daily Stoic - Think Before You Act

"For to be wise is only one thing - to fix our attention on our intelligence, which guides all things everywhere."

~ Heraclitus, quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, 9.1