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Most of these tools are the free tier of the Stoic Practice iPhone app, with the same steps and passages; the calendar and the quote checker were made for this site. Each card opens its tool on the page that explains the idea behind it.

For hard moments

Three guided exercises from the app’s I Need Perspective, two or three minutes each. Every step is optional, and each ends with one thing you can do next. Use Anger when something or someone has made you angry, Worry for something that might happen, and Outside My Control for something you can’t change. I Need Perspective has all three in one place.

Every day

Today’s teaching gives you one passage from the Stoics for the date, explained in plain English, and one practice for the day. The Evening Examination, a version of the nightly review Seneca describes in On Anger 3.36, closes the day with five short questions, from what went well to a resolution for tomorrow. There is no score.

Practices to try

These are two of the app’s three free practices; the third is the Evening Examination. The dichotomy of control, a modern name for the first lesson of Epictetus’s Enchiridion, sorts a situation into what is up to you and what is not. The four virtues practice holds one real situation up to wisdom, courage, justice and temperance. The other nine practices have written guides under Practices; in the app, their guided versions are part of Premium.

Perspective on time

The memento mori calendar draws your life as a grid of weeks, from your birth month and year to a life span you can change, and saves it as an iPhone wallpaper or a printable poster. It is web-only; the app has no calendar. Memento mori is a later Latin label; the memento mori guide shows what the Stoics themselves wrote about death.

Check a quote

Paste a line credited to Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus or Seneca, and the quote checker searches the public-domain translations quoted here: George Long’s Meditations and his selection from Epictetus, and Aubrey Stewart’s Seneca dialogues and On Benefits. It tells you whether the words are there as written, close to a real passage, or not found. A miss is not proof that a line is fake: Seneca’s Letters, for one, are not among the texts it searches.

Printables

Print any of these pages from your browser, or save it as a PDF from the print menu. There is no form and no email address to give.

• A Stoic daily routine: a one-page Stoic day.
• The Stoic journal template: a morning page and an evening page.
• Stoic journal prompts: sixty prompts, grouped under the passages they draw on.
• All twelve practices, with their sources.

Your own notes can be kept too: a finished exercise or practice can be copied or printed, and the Evening Examination copied or saved as a text file.

What leaves your browser

The exercises, the practices, the Evening Examination and the calendar run entirely in your browser. What you type is gone when you leave or reload the page, and the birth month and year you give the calendar are never sent or saved. The only answers kept, and only if you ask: tick “Keep tonight’s answers on this device” after the Evening Examination, and your answers stay in this browser until the next day.

The quote checker is the exception: the words you paste go to our website in the body of the request, not the page address, to be compared with the translations. They are not stored or logged. The site sets no cookies and runs no analytics; the details are in the privacy policy.