When considering the causes of your actions, first consider their type so that you may consider more finely their nature. Did you act by ...

When you grow angry with someone absent, do not indulge your temper, your wit's ability to craft clever insults, or your imagination...

Of the outside world first, when you are young, pay as much attention as you need to understand yourself. Have adventures, though know they...

Neither keep yourself weak nor abuse power. The sailboat that has not caught the wind is neither safe itself nor harmless to others. Unc...

Neither be so abstemious that you are always hungry nor eat to excess. In both cases your appetite will control you and impede your work, e...

When you fail at something, do not sulk, that is, do not spiral down into powerlessness. If you know the causes of your defeat, prepare and...

Twitter is not a tool to gain the favor of people by praising them or their work. Nor is it a place for you to maneuver your own work to th...

One of the most necessary lessons of moral philosophy is contained in this question: why do you see the straw in the eye of your brother an...

Spare yourself concern for the comings and goings of inferiors. To follow them and resent their unwise but carefree wanderings is a dark pa...

When choosing a course of action, do not choose a path simply because it forces you to relinquish something significant: this purpose flatt...

Wise men urge us to know ourselves, and this is certainly true. They too give many fine reasons why, but here is one in particular you shou...

Some men seek out challenges because they expect to grow stronger, wealthier, or wiser by the doing. This is necessary and good if done wit...

We are inclined to glorify our circumstances when we fancy them the products of our own design–usually this is when life goes well–and lik...

Like the plant that from a seed grows, so do our habits. Tend them so they provide shade and beauty for your character. Some plants, thoug...

Some time ago I began to write down, like the venerable Marcus Aurelius, exhortations to myself in the hopes of urging myself toward the go...