"Fortune lashes and mangles us: well, let us endure it: it is not cruelty, it is a struggle, in which the oftener we engage the braver...

"That’s why the philosophers warn us not to be satisfied with mere learning, but to add practice and then training. For as time passes...

The quote below, via  The Daily Stoic , reminded me of the story Warren Buffett often tells about how Ben Graham used the process of mimick...

From  The Daily Stoic : “When children stick their hand down a narrow goody jar they can’t get their full fist out and start crying. Drop...

Via  The Daily Stoic : “Remember to conduct yourself in life as if at a banquet. As something being passed around comes to you, reach out ...

From The Daily Stoic : “For if a person shifts their caution to their own reasoned choices and the acts of those choices, they will at th...

"My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati : that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in al...

Berkshire Hathaway Symposium: Panel 2 - Shareholders (5 videos) ( LINK ) Richard S. Tedlow Leads the IBM 360 HBS Case (2008 video) [H/T @P...

1977 WSJ article on Warren Buffett – "Investor Who Piled Up $100 Million in the ‘60’s Piles Up Firms Today" [H/T @iancassel ] ( LI...

The Latticework blog has posted some excerpts from the Boyles Q2 letter, where we discussed Brexit as well as our new Greek holding . Men...

From Moral letters to Lucilius - Letter 23 ( Kindle ): Do you ask what is the foundation of a sound mind? It is, not to find joy in usel...

For those interested, I noticed some new audiobook narrations have been made from the great works of Stoicism over the last few of months: ...

From The Discourses of Epictetus (4.12): What, is it possible thenceforth to be entirely free from fault? No, that is beyond us; but this...

Barry Ritholtz interviews Robert Shiller ( LINK ) Jason Zweig on value in international stocks ( LINK ) Richard Duncan on the McAlvany W...

Jason Zweig talks with Robert Shiller ( LINK ) James Grant on CNBC (Videos: U.S. rates vs. equity value , Perspective on dollar strength ,...

An excerpt from Atul Gawande's latest book,  Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End , which was released today ( LINK ) Th...

Here are the thoughts and quotes I’ve collected that relate to Stoicism that I review on a regular basis, for those that might be interest...

“Every habit and faculty is formed or strengthened by the corresponding act - walking makes you walk better, running makes you a better ru...

"Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things." "Seek not that the things which h...

Frances and Henry Hazlitt (yes, the author of the great Economics in One Lesson ) put together this wonderful compilation of wisdom from th...