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366 Stoic Quotes: A Year Of Stoicism From Ancient And Modern Stoics - A Daily Guide Of Stoic Meditations
Stoicism gives us the tools we need to be able to endure the worst in life, and the presence to appreciate the best in life. Since ancient times, people have looked to the great stoic philosophers for direction on the way to live a good life, in accordance with reason and virtue. In his new book, Alexander Clavell has compiled a year of wisdom from ancient and modern stoics. This book ▶A stoic quote for every day of the year ▶Wisdom from the great stoic philosophers ▶Profound insights by today’s modern stoics ▶A year of mediations to keep you on the stoic path Get 366 Stoic A Year Of Stoicism From Ancient And Modern Stoics NOW!
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August 10, 2025
366 Stoic Quotes by Alexander Clavell
10 out of 10
Stoicism is what we need now…indeed, we might say that it is imposed on the world, or if not yet, it will be, given the war in Ukraine (all Putin’s fault to be clear, it is outrageous and unthinkable that we even have to state this, but one of the many silly conversations that have taken place at the sauna Downtown [thank god for the pandemic that this ordeal at least has ended] comes to mind, in which one of the many fools that buy into conspiracy theories was explaining how the Americans are to blame for the Crimea catastrophe and not Putin), the fallout which is anticipated by stupendous Yuval Harari – author of the mesmerizing, radiant, exalting Home Deus – A History of the Future http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/h... - in an article in The Economist…
One of the most profound thinkers of the age, Yuval Harari, explains that if Russia invades Ukraine (which was not yet a sure thing a week ago, when he wrote his contribution) there will be a paradigm shift – for a hilarious, outrageous definition of paradigm shift and for the joie de vivre, savoir faire, humor, you should read the Booker Prize Winner Vernon God little by divine DBC Pierre http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/h... - because after World War II, there have been sporadic wars, but none of this magnitude in Europe and countries have not been wiped off the map…thus governments have increased health, education spending, being less concerned with military profligacy, which used to be the norm in recent history, when peace had been just a period between wars, whereas after WWII, it has been the normal situation, changed now by Evil Putin…
Countries will be pressed to spend more on arms and their military, Yuval Harari writes, for there will be this angoisse, states living with existential threat, for Putin and others may start another narrative after the rambling and angry distortion displayed by the dictator in the speech in which he says Ukraine is just a fiction, created by Lenin and has not right to exist, since it is connected in history with Russia, and he may very well say in a few weeks or months, once the Ukrainian resistance will have been crushed – I mean, perhaps there will be partisans, resistance fighters and the big bear is defeated, Insha’Allah – that Poland has been part of Russia and Romania is naughty anyway and hence, they need to be taken back into the Warsaw pact and become province of the Third Rome aka Moscow…
What follows is not connected with Stoicism, but there are two main reasons to let it be and not delete or even edit it, first because hey, who reads it anyway, except for future Artificial Intelligence, which after Singularity will read everything and maybe there is a molecule in there that they can add to the body of human analysis that they will make, and second, this is what happens when we do not apply Stoic principles of discipline, restraint – which must also deal with the tendency that some people have to inflict on others their logorrhea, in this particular case limited to this medium, for there are no friends left, nobody to talk to except the macaws (the spouse is aghast at the first uttered word) – balance, equanimity, temperance, appreciation of beauty and excellence – which would again mean cutting short all of that follows or eliminating it altogether
Serenity Now That We Move On
There are some mixed feelings as we find that we are supposed to move on, literally and perhaps metaphorically as well – indeed, on most levels, it would be better if one is to advance, change, use the Lasagna Principle spiritually and stay put physically, but now it might work the other way round – now that we are expelled, extradited and the flat will no longer be used for the rent it brings, but for the exile of self…
On the one hand, the routine, lack of horizon and unchanging days would result in what Thomas Mann describes in his Magnum opus, The Magic Mountain, included on the 100 Greatest Books list http://realini.blogspot.com/2021/09/t... wherefrom we learn about what stereotype means, how days that do not change in the least from one another end up being just one unit, making the passing of time somehow meaningless – if I have this right, which I do not just doubt, I am sure there is much more here that evades my comprehension – and without change there is no happiness…
Stefan Klein talks in his marvelous The Science of Happiness – How Our Brains Make Us Happy and What Can We Do to Get Happier http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/10/t... and the need for change, which is essential for wellbeing and presumably the functioning of the brain…something that Harvard Professor Tal Ben-Shahar calls The Lasagna Principle…there is however a Golden Mean that we have learned from Aristotle and we need to apply, for a balance has to be struck between the change and the rituals that we have to observe everyday…
This will have to be investigated in the days, weeks and months to come when ‘all hell will break loose’ – which is from Paradise Lost apparently – and dramatic transformations will follow, as we are supposed to clear the premises, the house will be put up for sale…this had been mentioned before, but there is no escaping it this time, besides, it might bring about some much needed new rituals, the social contact that had been missing for the past years of the pandemic and thus it could stop a process of otherwise inevitable decline…
As it is, there is little to hope beyond some splendid rituals, such as jogging in the morning, which needs to continue, unless it is changed for cycling, coupled perhaps with swimming at the Downtown pool again – after a break of more than a couple of years, it may be just about time to renew contacts, futile conversations and the odd clash with various ghouls there, or maybe change the setting and opt for Le Club…this is rather distant, or is it something to consider for the next couple of months?
Instead of this garden and the bamboo – by the way, I should try and get some pots and put some of this spectacular, five meters tall in them…but then where the hell will they put that height, should we put holes in the roof of the balcony- there will be that goddamn balcony for sunbathing, with the kerfuffle of the traffic there below, smack in the center of the burg, with tramways and all, but then within walking distance from all the major sites…
In the evening, from the top of my head, there will be the chance to walk into the old town and maybe then take the macaws along, I thought that may be a money spinning enterprise – wow, it could make maybe north of 1,000 dollars per month, if I ask people to pay for pictures…but then what about the scenario in which Puccini or Balzac, maybe even both pick on a customer and then we are liable for a million to repair his face
The reading and all the rest will follow the same pattern, indeed, there is a need to keep as much or all that is blissful and introduce the new, missing elements, like the paramount socializing and going out to see the city and people again – yes, there are some grim travailleurs that I jog past in the morning now, but then Stefan Klein insists that even if it is a question of taking a different itinerary from work or school, that is essential and for two years, there has been Mogosoaia and not much outside of that…
Let us see…morning will be the same routine of jogging and maybe stopping over for the sauna at the Downtown Club, if the saunas are open again – and are they safe incidentally – and then get back to the boys to maybe take them out, or would that be reserved for the evening…they will have to stay the usual two hours in the cage, between say one or two and four and five, but they will go to sleep earlier…that is a must
Then at eight p.m. out in the city, with or without the boys and there will be the chance to get to some night club, get some visits at home from the phone list that advertise that and eventually use the two hour siesta to travel to the very crowded Alba place, where there would be plenty of opportunities…except what about the scorching summer…maybe take them to the Black Sea Coast and then find some pet care place…
The Fellow from North might be the solution, at least temporarily, the boys can be left with him and then there might be that plan with Breaza, Mamaia in summer and take them with the Ford and then find some house with yard where the car will stay and then we have the supports…this will be on the list of to take…
10 out of 10
Stoicism is what we need now…indeed, we might say that it is imposed on the world, or if not yet, it will be, given the war in Ukraine (all Putin’s fault to be clear, it is outrageous and unthinkable that we even have to state this, but one of the many silly conversations that have taken place at the sauna Downtown [thank god for the pandemic that this ordeal at least has ended] comes to mind, in which one of the many fools that buy into conspiracy theories was explaining how the Americans are to blame for the Crimea catastrophe and not Putin), the fallout which is anticipated by stupendous Yuval Harari – author of the mesmerizing, radiant, exalting Home Deus – A History of the Future http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/h... - in an article in The Economist…
One of the most profound thinkers of the age, Yuval Harari, explains that if Russia invades Ukraine (which was not yet a sure thing a week ago, when he wrote his contribution) there will be a paradigm shift – for a hilarious, outrageous definition of paradigm shift and for the joie de vivre, savoir faire, humor, you should read the Booker Prize Winner Vernon God little by divine DBC Pierre http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/h... - because after World War II, there have been sporadic wars, but none of this magnitude in Europe and countries have not been wiped off the map…thus governments have increased health, education spending, being less concerned with military profligacy, which used to be the norm in recent history, when peace had been just a period between wars, whereas after WWII, it has been the normal situation, changed now by Evil Putin…
Countries will be pressed to spend more on arms and their military, Yuval Harari writes, for there will be this angoisse, states living with existential threat, for Putin and others may start another narrative after the rambling and angry distortion displayed by the dictator in the speech in which he says Ukraine is just a fiction, created by Lenin and has not right to exist, since it is connected in history with Russia, and he may very well say in a few weeks or months, once the Ukrainian resistance will have been crushed – I mean, perhaps there will be partisans, resistance fighters and the big bear is defeated, Insha’Allah – that Poland has been part of Russia and Romania is naughty anyway and hence, they need to be taken back into the Warsaw pact and become province of the Third Rome aka Moscow…
What follows is not connected with Stoicism, but there are two main reasons to let it be and not delete or even edit it, first because hey, who reads it anyway, except for future Artificial Intelligence, which after Singularity will read everything and maybe there is a molecule in there that they can add to the body of human analysis that they will make, and second, this is what happens when we do not apply Stoic principles of discipline, restraint – which must also deal with the tendency that some people have to inflict on others their logorrhea, in this particular case limited to this medium, for there are no friends left, nobody to talk to except the macaws (the spouse is aghast at the first uttered word) – balance, equanimity, temperance, appreciation of beauty and excellence – which would again mean cutting short all of that follows or eliminating it altogether
Serenity Now That We Move On
There are some mixed feelings as we find that we are supposed to move on, literally and perhaps metaphorically as well – indeed, on most levels, it would be better if one is to advance, change, use the Lasagna Principle spiritually and stay put physically, but now it might work the other way round – now that we are expelled, extradited and the flat will no longer be used for the rent it brings, but for the exile of self…
On the one hand, the routine, lack of horizon and unchanging days would result in what Thomas Mann describes in his Magnum opus, The Magic Mountain, included on the 100 Greatest Books list http://realini.blogspot.com/2021/09/t... wherefrom we learn about what stereotype means, how days that do not change in the least from one another end up being just one unit, making the passing of time somehow meaningless – if I have this right, which I do not just doubt, I am sure there is much more here that evades my comprehension – and without change there is no happiness…
Stefan Klein talks in his marvelous The Science of Happiness – How Our Brains Make Us Happy and What Can We Do to Get Happier http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/10/t... and the need for change, which is essential for wellbeing and presumably the functioning of the brain…something that Harvard Professor Tal Ben-Shahar calls The Lasagna Principle…there is however a Golden Mean that we have learned from Aristotle and we need to apply, for a balance has to be struck between the change and the rituals that we have to observe everyday…
This will have to be investigated in the days, weeks and months to come when ‘all hell will break loose’ – which is from Paradise Lost apparently – and dramatic transformations will follow, as we are supposed to clear the premises, the house will be put up for sale…this had been mentioned before, but there is no escaping it this time, besides, it might bring about some much needed new rituals, the social contact that had been missing for the past years of the pandemic and thus it could stop a process of otherwise inevitable decline…
As it is, there is little to hope beyond some splendid rituals, such as jogging in the morning, which needs to continue, unless it is changed for cycling, coupled perhaps with swimming at the Downtown pool again – after a break of more than a couple of years, it may be just about time to renew contacts, futile conversations and the odd clash with various ghouls there, or maybe change the setting and opt for Le Club…this is rather distant, or is it something to consider for the next couple of months?
Instead of this garden and the bamboo – by the way, I should try and get some pots and put some of this spectacular, five meters tall in them…but then where the hell will they put that height, should we put holes in the roof of the balcony- there will be that goddamn balcony for sunbathing, with the kerfuffle of the traffic there below, smack in the center of the burg, with tramways and all, but then within walking distance from all the major sites…
In the evening, from the top of my head, there will be the chance to walk into the old town and maybe then take the macaws along, I thought that may be a money spinning enterprise – wow, it could make maybe north of 1,000 dollars per month, if I ask people to pay for pictures…but then what about the scenario in which Puccini or Balzac, maybe even both pick on a customer and then we are liable for a million to repair his face
The reading and all the rest will follow the same pattern, indeed, there is a need to keep as much or all that is blissful and introduce the new, missing elements, like the paramount socializing and going out to see the city and people again – yes, there are some grim travailleurs that I jog past in the morning now, but then Stefan Klein insists that even if it is a question of taking a different itinerary from work or school, that is essential and for two years, there has been Mogosoaia and not much outside of that…
Let us see…morning will be the same routine of jogging and maybe stopping over for the sauna at the Downtown Club, if the saunas are open again – and are they safe incidentally – and then get back to the boys to maybe take them out, or would that be reserved for the evening…they will have to stay the usual two hours in the cage, between say one or two and four and five, but they will go to sleep earlier…that is a must
Then at eight p.m. out in the city, with or without the boys and there will be the chance to get to some night club, get some visits at home from the phone list that advertise that and eventually use the two hour siesta to travel to the very crowded Alba place, where there would be plenty of opportunities…except what about the scorching summer…maybe take them to the Black Sea Coast and then find some pet care place…
The Fellow from North might be the solution, at least temporarily, the boys can be left with him and then there might be that plan with Breaza, Mamaia in summer and take them with the Ford and then find some house with yard where the car will stay and then we have the supports…this will be on the list of to take…
July 4, 2022
Stoicism is Life
I have connected with Stoicism on so many levels. It has not only helped me discover myself through my separation but it has helped me look at life events through the manner of indifference. Control our emotions and we master ourselves. We'll done!
I have connected with Stoicism on so many levels. It has not only helped me discover myself through my separation but it has helped me look at life events through the manner of indifference. Control our emotions and we master ourselves. We'll done!
December 26, 2022
Almost perfect inspiration...
... If it were not the fact that there was at least one Joe Rogan quote in there, and not even Stoicism could help me contain my visceral reaction to a fool such as him invading my philosophical reading.
... If it were not the fact that there was at least one Joe Rogan quote in there, and not even Stoicism could help me contain my visceral reaction to a fool such as him invading my philosophical reading.
April 11, 2022
This was fun
I enjoyed this book and it gives a lot to think about. Some of the people that were quoted was an odd choice but overall good.
I enjoyed this book and it gives a lot to think about. Some of the people that were quoted was an odd choice but overall good.
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