Moral Letters
105 - On Treading Safely - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Remember that being polite costs you nothing while being indifferent may cost you everything.
Moral Letters
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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104 - On Self-Care - Moral Letters for Modern Times
There is no distance we should not travel to take a cure for what ails us. But I would have you reflect that no amount of travel will help us if we are treating the wrong illness.
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103 - On The Greatest Threat - Moral Letters for Modern Times
You are never closer to danger than in the presence of your fellow humans.
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102 - On What Survives Us - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Serving as an example is more powerful than lingering in memory.
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101 - On Making Plans - Moral Letters for Modern Times
The fact that you may not achieve all that you plan for is reason only to be prepared for failure, not failing to plan and refusing to try.
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100 - On Popular Authors - Moral Letters for Modern Times
By using your reading as a mirror into your own thoughts, you train yourself to pay attention to your mind.
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099 - On Mourning The Dead - Moral Letters for Modern Times
There is a point beyond which showing patience and understanding no longer demonstrates compassion but rather turns into indulgence that reflects well on neither the recipient nor the giver.
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098 - On Counting On Chance - Moral Letters for Modern Times
The external world provides the canvas on which our lives play out, but we provide both color and picture.
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097 - On Our Rotten Times - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Just as advances and accomplishments belong to an age in history, so too do the embarrassments that the next generation take but a few decades to clearly perceive.
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096 - On Adversity - Moral Letters for Modern Times
The only misfortune you need focus on is the fact that you feel the need to resist and complain.
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095 - On Doctrines (Theory) - Moral Letters for Modern Times
The ultimate aim of living well is to understand the value behind our circumstances and to then take deliberate actions in line with reason.
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094 - On Precepts (Sayings) - Moral Letters for Modern Times
The next best thing to having good examples by your side is to have precepts never far from mind. These are the written condensation of the best examples of people across time.