Stoic Meditations

While wealth is a preferred indifferent, luxury is more problematic, from a Stoic perspective. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Musonius Rufus says that the combination of experience and self-control allow us to do what is right by others and ourselves. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Musonius Rufus contrasts the short duration of a shameful pleasure with the lingering regret that will follow. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

The philosopher’s school is a doctor’s office. You must leave not pleased, but pained, because you do not come in healthy. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

A rare glimpse into the life of young Epictetus, when he gets criticized by his teacher, Musonius Rufus. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Musonius Rufus clearly states how to implement the dichotomy of control in our lives. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Musonius Rufus reminds us that our most precious faculty is our ability to challenge impressions --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Musonius Rufus is confronted by a critic about what it means to live according to Zeus, or Nature. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Words of advice and warning administered when a person’s emotions are at their height and boiling over, accomplish little or nothing. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

In order to protect ourselves we must live like doctors and be continually treating ourselves with reason. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Don’t expect to tell others what they should do when they know that you do what you shouldn’t. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

It is not proper for one to die who is helpful to many while he is alive, unless by dying he is helpful to more. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Choose to die well while you can; wait too long, and it might become impossible to do so. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

If we speak badly, we think badly, and we are more likely to act badly. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Musonius Rufus reminds us to be on guard concerning the effects that both pain and pleasure may have on our character. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Self-control, often referred to as the fourth cardinal virtue of temperance, is crucial to Stoicism and other philosophies of life. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Musonius Rufus reminds us that we might have the same bad inclinations as other people, so we should start working on ourselves first. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Musonius Rufus reminds us that we can, and should, only live in the present. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Cicero deploys a beautiful metaphor to encapsulate the Stoic theory of moral developmental psychology. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Wisdom is what allows us to use everything well. Things like money or education have no intrinsic value, they become valuable if we use them correctly. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support