don't steal

Well, yes. That's what's called a "precognition" in Stoic philosophy. The person who'd be ashamed of asking for money and the one who wouldn't both have the same precognition of shame, but they're bot…

I did my best to follow the bullshit rules. And what did it get me? I survived, but miserably and alone. I'm learning to live my own life, slowly, and not living by their rules (I mean, there are som…

It's a good question. Epictetus gives the example of his lamp being stolen in discourse 1.18. Your trumpet would be what the stoics called an "indifferent". I find the details of this concept a bit c…

Get those locks changed and get him out. I don't know you, but I respect you more than that "boyfriend" does. You don't steal from someone you respect. You don't mooch off of your partner for YEARS …