In the ancient Roman army, the Praetorian Guard—the emperor’s personal bodyguards—enjoyed privileged status. For example, their term of service was 16 years, followed by a pension of 20,000 sesterces, whereas a legionary’s term of service was 20 years and…
When it comes to wines and wine hobby, it's always about price first. If you put a thick enough bag of notes on the table, you can get any wine you want. It's always about value for money and the fact that a good wine connoisseur buys...
Urban Stoicism is neither an ideology nor a religion. It is not a system in which self-invented concepts are forced, piece by piece, with pretense, to conform to reality (and if not, then to the bed of Procrustes...
We Stoastadites like mailboxes. We Stoastadites like things that are pleasant. And “pleasant” means something that suits our tastes. One thing that falls within our own sphere of responsibility is organizing our own everyday affairs. Mailboxes are one such thing. Letters, bills,…
The Disappearance of Objects and the Stoic Worldview. Stoics greatly admire electricians, plumbers, and carpenters who arrive at their worksites with a couple of large toolboxes, get right to work, and never have a single tool go missing! There’s no need to…
"There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. It is the sadness of understanding that life is not...