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081 - On Generosity And Gratefulness - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Though a person first does you a favor and then commits a harm, you should value the former greater than the latter.
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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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080 - On Training To Improve - Moral Letters for Modern Times
The side effects of not only being physically fit, but training to become and remain physically fit, are certainly real.
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079 - On Studying Beneath The Surface - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Why is it so hard to understand what we want, what will make us happy, and how to take the actions that will bring us there?
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078 - On Our Duty To Live - Moral Letters for Modern Times
While we have breath in the body, we must not give up. Not because we fear death, nothing so mundane. But because we can do good in the world by living; we can make the world a better place by our presence.
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077 - On The Duty To Let Ideas Live - Moral Letters for Modern Times
It is the hallmark of great civilizations that they let their citizens speak freely and, moreover, that they organize themselves to facilitate open communication far and wide.
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076 - On Continuing Education - Moral Letters for Modern Times
I myself try to be an earnest student. Though I am far removed from my formal school days, I am never far from a book or an idea.
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075 - On Mind Viruses - Moral Letters for Modern Times
The mind viruses are vices such as jealousy, greed, ambition, spite, fear – all things that we know of and have been trying to put in their proper place.
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074 - On Internal Versus External Value - Moral Letters for Modern Times
If you take a step, even a tiny step, in the direction of your choosing, you will have improved your situation over that of yesterday.
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073 - On The Rule Of Law - Moral Letters for Modern Times
The rule of law is a gift beyond price that should be defended at all costs.
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072 - On Business As A Distraction - Moral Letters for Modern Times
It is impatience in business affairs, as much as in life, that leads us to be distracted from potentially more valuable pursuits.
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071 - On The Greatest Good - Moral Letters for Modern Times
The greater your desired change, the larger will be the necessary expenditure of your personal resources. Nature rewards us only grudgingly, after we have paid our respects by paying our dues.
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070 - On The Will To Live - Moral Letters for Modern Times
The legal profession has found a way to work true magic: that is, they can speak for the dead. To that short list of things that can be guaranteed in life, death and taxes, we can add a third, lawsuits.