Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.

Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.

People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.

Love without sacrifice is like theft

Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social network.

Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.

Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.

.....we find ourselves inhabitants of the last few living cells of a dying god

Everything is subjective.

Remorse begets reform.

So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.

The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.

And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.

If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?

Nothing is taboo if you have an angle on it.