Moral Letters
022 - On Sticking To Your Decisions - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Whether you are advancing or retreating, be fully committed to what you are doing.
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This is a modern take on Seneca's Moral Letters to Lucilius. I use them as tools in the ongoing search for what it means to live a good life. Although Seneca's words have been mined for centuries, each generation keeps turning up gemstones. I seek to polish old stones to show them in a new light.
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021 - On Posterity - Moral Letters for Modern Times
We want some part of us to continue, to survive the ages.
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020 - On Consistency - Moral Letters for Modern Times
The way to identify a wise person is to observe the one who maintains consistency in the face of passions all around them.
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019 - On Retirement - Moral Letters for Modern Times
How much better to choose the time of your leaving yourself.
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017 - On Wealth - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Once one’s feet are stuck on the path to wealth, the scantest few manage to pry themselves from it.
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016 - On True And False Philosophy - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Remember that philosophy is neither just for show, nor for other people’s benefit.
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015 - On Exercise Routines - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Your body is a machine that deserves tending to be sure, but are you the engineer or merely a mechanic?
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014 - On Keeping A Low Profile - Moral Letters for Modern Times
I say this: the mob will hate you if you are wrong, and they will hate you even more if you are right.
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013 - On Anxiety - Moral Letters for Modern Times
There are more things, Deuteros, apt to worry us than there are to wound us; but we’re harmed in our heads more than by anyone else’s hand
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012 - On Aging - Moral Letters for Modern Times
There is no greater pleasure than being able to look back on a life of proper thoughts and actions.
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011 - On Introverts - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Introversion is not something that is remedied by exposure. If anything, repeated forays out of comfortable seclusion only strengthen the desire to return to safety.
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010 - On Attending To Yourself - Moral Letters for Modern Times
There is no one with whom you more profitably spend time than yourself.