Stoicism for Courage
Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus each wrote directly about courage — not as abstract philosophy, but as a daily discipline. The Daily Stoic turns their writing into one lesson a day: a principle, a practice, and a question to sit with.
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Keep the hard things in view
Epictetus — Enchiridion, Chapter XXI (trans. Thomas W. Higginson, 1865)
Courage untested is just luck
Seneca — On the Firmness of the Wise Man, Chapter III (trans. Aubrey Stewart, 1900)
Courage and caution aren't opposites
Epictetus — Discourses, Book II, Chapter 1 (trans. George Long, 1877)
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