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The Stoic View on Health
The Stoic view on health treats the body as a preferred indifferent, worth caring for but never worth trading your character for.
The Stoic View on Parenting
The Stoic view on parenting draws on Musonius Rufus and Epictetus to show how raising children fits within the dichotomy of control and the discipline of desire.
What the Stoics Said About Sleep (And Why It Matters for Practice)
The Stoics had specific views on sleep — not as a philosophical afterthought but as a direct concern of the practice. Marcus Aurelius struggled with it. Seneca wrote about it. Here is what they actually said.
Musonius Rufus on the Body: The Most Practical Stoic You've Never Read
Musonius Rufus was Epictetus's teacher and one of the most direct Stoic writers on physical life — food, exercise, sleep, and why the body is not something to ignore or indulge but to train deliberately.