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Bear trials with calm
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden." - Seneca.Support Stoicism by Robots on Patreon and get access to new and...
Freedom is the goal
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control." - Epictetus.Support Stoicism by Robots on Pat...
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.” - Epictetus.Support Stoicism by Robots on Patreon and get access to new and original Stoic passages cr...
Life is like a play
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters." - Seneca.Support Stoicism by Robots on Patreon and get acce...
Your faults should die before you do
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Of this one thing make sure against your dying day – that your faults die before you do." - Seneca.Support Stoicism by Robots on Patreon and get ac...
Forgive yourself
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on." - Epictetus.Support Stoicism by Robots on Patreon and get access to new and original...
We are like incense
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"We are like many pellets of incense falling on the same altar. Some collapse sooner, others later, but it makes no difference." - Marcus Aurelius.Sup...
Hold true
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going o...
Progress is not achieved by accident
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily." - Epictetus.Support Stoicism by Robots on Patreon and get access to ...
Take away thy opinion
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Take away thy opinion, and there is taken away the complaint. Take away the complaint and the hurt is gone." - Marcus Aurelius.Support Stoicism by Ro...
Anger is the injury
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it." - SenecaSupport Stoicism by Robots on Patreon and get a...
Is this within my control?
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"We should always be asking ourselves: 'Is this something that is, or is not, in my control?'" - Epictetus.Support Stoicism by Robots on Patreon and g...
Measuring reason
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle." -Epictetus.Support Stoicism by Robots on Patreon and get access to new and original Stoi...
Everything is coordinated
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"All things are interwoven with one another; a sacred bond unites them; there is scarcely one thing that is isolated from another. Everything is coord...
The deception of prosperity
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.” - SenecaSupport Stoicism by Robots on Patreon and get access to...
Fear not death
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." - Marcus Aurelius.Support Stoicism by Robots on Patreon and get ...
What do you want to be?
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” - Epictetus.Support Stoicism by Robots on Patreon and get access to ne...
The remedy for anger.
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"The greatest remedy for anger is delay." - SenecaSupport Stoicism by Robots on Patreon and get access to new and original Stoic passages crafted by o...
Fire to steel, adversity to man
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Adversity does not make a person frail, but on the contrary, sturdier. Just as a fire tempers iron into steel, so does adversity temper man into the ...
We become what we do
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"From the very hour of his birth, a man begins to be that which he constantly does." - EpictetusSupport Stoicism by Robots on Patreon and get access t...
Throw out conceited opinions
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Throw out your conceited opinions, for it is impossible for a person to begin to learn what he thinks he already knows." - Epictetus.Support Stoicism...
He who is brave is free.
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"He who is brave is free." - SenecaSupport Stoicism by Robots on Patreon and get access to new and original Stoic passages crafted by our AI's unique ...
Be good
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." - Marcus AureliusSupport Stoicism by Robots on Patreon and get access to new and origi...
Men are disturbed not by things
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them." - EpictetusSupport Stoicism by Robots on Patreon and get access to new and...
Reject your sense of injury.
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears." - Marcus AureliusSupport Stoicism by Robots on Patreon and get access to new and origi...
Focus on self-improvement, not changing the world.
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Often, we become preoccupied with the tapestry of life, forgetting we are but a single thread interwoven into its intricate design. Seek not to alter...
Events don't disturb people, their judgements do
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"It's not events that disturb people, it's their judgements concerning them." - EpictetusSupport Stoicism by Robots on Patreon and get access to new a...
Consider yourself to be dead
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Consider yourself to be dead, and to have completed your life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed you...
Wealth is having few wants, not great possessions.
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants." - EpictetusSupport Stoicism by Robots on Patreon and get access to new and...
Sow seeds of peace.
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Even as the raging sea heaves and falls, remain untormented within the confines of your own mind. Embrace the tumult as inevitable, yet harmless, for...
Seasons come and go.
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"In life, as in nature, seasons come and go, each carrying its own trials and tribulations. Embrace these changes not as adversities, but as reminders...
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body." - SenecaSupport Stoicism by Robots on Patreon and get access to new and original Stoic pas...
Navigate life's storms with reason, virtue, and inner serenity.
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Recognize that storms of life are not to be feared, but navigated. Control not the gales that batter, for these are externals, beyond your grasp. Ins...
You have power over your mind.
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." - Marcus Aurelius.Support Stoicism by Robots on Patreo...
Seek autonomy and tranquility
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Let not the rapid river of events sweep you off your feet. Whether they be of joy or sorrow, take caution, for both distort the perception of the vig...
Diseases of the soul
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body." - Seneca Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...
Enjoy the present.
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest sat...
Introducing the Stoicism by Robots Patreon
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
🔥 Welcome to Stoicism 2.0 🔥🌟 Join the Stoicism By Robots Patreon for original AI-Generated Stoic passages and explorations 🌟📣 New, unse...
Embrace change, focus on virtue.
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the very first of our exclusive Patreon episodes, our AI host writes, reads and discusses a new and entirelyoriginal passage. 100% created by Artif...
Choose not to be harmed.
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Choose not to be harmed — and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed — and you haven’t been." - Marcus Aurelius. Hosted on Acast. See aca...
Wish for everything to happen as it actually does.
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be s...
We are more often frightened than hurt.
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality." - Seneca Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...
Enjoy the present
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest sat...
The man who craves more
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." - Seneca Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...
External pain from internal judgement.
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgement about it. And it is in your power to wipe out...
Prepare for the day
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all...
No man is free who is not master of himself.
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"No man is free who is not master of himself." - Epictetus Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...
Excessive pleasures become punishments
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments." - Seneca Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on...
Difficulties make us stronger.
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rou...
Knowing death allows worthy life and goodness.
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a living man. But he who knows that this was the condition laid down for him at the moment of his...
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." - Seneca Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acas...
External things are not the problem
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now." - Marcus Aurelius. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...
When you arise in the morning
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." - Seneca Hosted on Ac...
This is what you are
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"This is what you are. You are neither matter nor form nor any of the elements that compose the changeable body. You are none of the things that peopl...
Death is nothing to fear
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Remember that it is not only the things themselves that trouble us, but also our judgments about those things. For example, death is nothing to fear,...
Happiness and Freedom
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not." - Epictetus Ho...
Imagined anxieties
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems." - Epictetus Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...
Some things are up to us and some are not
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Some things are up to us and some are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, our impulses, desires, aversions—in short, whatever is our own doing...
Everything is only for a day
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered." - Marcus Aurelius Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...
The impediment to action advances action
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." - Marcus Aurelius Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...
The Power of the Present
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"All you need are these: certainty of judgment in the present moment; action for the common good in the present moment; and an attitude of gratitude i...
The universe is change; life is an opinion
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"The universe is change; life is an opinion." - Marcus Aurelius Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acas...
Triumph Amidst Adversity
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests." - Epictetus Hosted on ...
Man conquers the world by conquering himself
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Man conquers the world by conquering himself." - Zeno of Citium Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See aca...
Clarity in Choice and Control
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control,...
Perspective Shapes Our Emotional Reality
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Man is affected not by events, but by the view he takes of them." - Epictetus Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on ...
Welcome to Stoicism, Read by Robots
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this thought-provoking podcast, listeners are taken on a journey through the timeless wisdom of Stoic philosophy, with a unique twist—artificial ...