Key points Virtues are character qualities that enable you to act in ways that fulfill your potential. Recent research confirms that cultivating virtues is associated with personal happiness as well ...

Stoicism has enjoyed a revival of sorts in recent times, with a number of authors and thinkers highlighting its relevance in ...

It’s true that the word “virtue,” with connotations of self-sacrifice and Victorian morality, can be rather off-putting. Yet, for many ancient Greeks and Romans—Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics ...

This article argues that the Stoics possessed a conception of toleration as a personal and social virtue. In contrast with previous scholarship, I argue that such a conception of toleration only ...

Stoicism teaches the development of self-control and fortitude as a means to overcome destructive emotions. Virtues and vices are understood to be dependable moral dispositions.

Ryan Holiday isn’t a trained philosopher, but hundreds of thousands of people turn to him for a daily dose of wisdom and insight. Holiday’s status as a college dropout makes him a “pen-and-ink ...

Many terms are used to describe firefighters and their attributes. How about this one: stoic. No need for us to bury ourselves in philosophical ponderance. At base, stoicism is about cultivating a ...

In this podcast, Motley Fool producer Ricky Mulvey and Motley Fool contributor Brian Stoffel serve up an introduction to stoicism, and why philosophers from a few thousand years ago have practical ...