The Hard Part Of Stoicism. What Determines Whether You’re A Slave Or A Free Man

Ricardo Guaderrama Caraveo
6 min readFeb 12, 2023
Photo by Tavis Beck on Unsplash

You will ever remain a slave as long as you do not disentangle your relationship with the externals (stuff that you cannot control).

The only thing that you can really control is your choices.

The externals are many, basically everything. Your health, your wealth, the health of the people you love, the…

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