The true measure of “growth” is being able to enjoy life, as it is, whenever, however, it is. This can be felt when we are sick. Has it ever happened to you? …

I shouldn’t have begun reading other people’s essays. “I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.” ― Michel de Montaigne Montaigne wrote in his essays how he felt about the way he wrote, not too great. In his essay…

True freedom cannot be achieved if we are constantly chasing approval and being popular. The fruits of approval and popularity are sweet, but they do not come without toil and work. It’s amazing how you can go to Instagram or TikTok and do some “research”, and find out what is…

For I never bring back home the same character that I took abroad with me. Something of that which I have forced to be calm within me is disturbed; some of the foes that I have routed return again. — Seneca When you go out into the world, it is…

The world is going to be saved by the patient people, in a world with no time, who are able to ask questions and answer answers, until they arrive to truths and understanding. “Socrates: Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth, and…

Epictetus is the best Stoic if you want to understand the fundamentals of Stoicism. Pop Stoicism tells you that you should concern yourself only with the stuff that is under your control and leave out the rest. This makes enough sense. …

So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the chancellors of God. In the Will work and acquire, and thou hast chained…

True victory lies in your role in the conflict, not in coming through safely: it consists in the honor of battling bravely, not battling through. — Montaigne I realized something yesterday. I am very unhappy when my life consists purely of, as we say in Spanish: “perseguir el hueso”, which…

I just finished reading Montaigne’s essay “On the cannibals”, referring to the people from America, back in the 15th hundredths. He mentioned why they went to war with other peoples from the zone, and the reason was not to get more land or to steal their crops and women, but…