Learn To Ask This of Your Actions | Is Stoicism Compatible With Christianity?

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Because of how Stoicism survives to us mostly in the form of scraps and fragments and letters, we don't exactly have a list of do's and don'ts. There are no Ten Commandments of Stoicism, no definitive book of what they believed or didn't. But in those scraps and fragments we do get plenty. We know what Seneca tried to do every night as he closed the day.

We know what Marcus tried to think about in the morning. We know what Epictetus and Musonius Rufus said we ought to avoid doing, and it's that latter category that's worth thinking about today. What habits did the Stoics say we ought to cease? What vices should we avoid? Don't be overheard complaining, even to yourself, that's Marcus.

Don't put on airs about your self improvement that's Epictetus. Don't overindulge in eating or drinking, Musonius. Don't speak more than you listen, Zeno. Don't avoid difficulty, Seneca. Don't tie your identity to the clothes you wear, the things you own, Cato.

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