"Letters from a Stoic by Seneca"
The book has charmed me into a deeper reading. It was a joy to read this remarkable work of philosophy. The writing was pure and wisdom in the letters are still applicable today in our everyday life.
25 Wise Lessons from the book🧵
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The book has charmed me into a deeper reading. It was a joy to read this remarkable work of philosophy. The writing was pure and wisdom in the letters are still applicable today in our everyday life.
25 Wise Lessons from the book🧵
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1) After running over a lot of different thoughts, pick out one to be digested thoroughly that day. This is what I do myself; out of many bits I have been reading I lay hold of one.
2) Think for a long time whether or not you should admit a given person to your friendship. But when you have decided to do so, welcome him heart and soul, and speak as unreservedly with him as you would with yourself. Regard him as loyal, and you will make him loyal.
3) ‘What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend.’ That is progress indeed. Such a person will never be alone, and you may be sure he is a friend of all.
4) Happy the man who improves other people not merely when he is in their presence but even when he is in their thoughts.
5) The mind has to be given some time off, but in such a way that it may be refreshed, not relaxed till it goes to pieces.
6) Carry out a searching analysis and close scrutiny of yourself in all sorts of different lights. Consider above all else whether you’ve advanced in philosophy or just in actual years.
7) Give up pointless, empty journeys, and whenever you want to know whether the desire aroused in you by something you are pursuing is natural or quite unseeing.
8) The outcome of violent anger is a mental raving, and therefore anger is to be avoided not for the sake of moderation but for the sake of sanity.
9) A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness. Even if some obstacles to this comes on the scene, its appearance is only to be compared to that of clouds which drift in front of the sun without ever defeating its light.
10) A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation.
11) What is required is not a lot of words but effectual ones. Words need to be sown like seed. Not matter how tiny a seed may be, when it lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.
12) God is near you, is with you, is inside you. There resides within us a divine spirit, which guards us and watches us in the evil and good we do. As we treat him, so will he treat us. He it is that prompts us to noble and exalted endeavors.
13) Treat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors.
14) All things are liable to death, but that liability is governed by no set rules. Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
15) An ordinary journey will be incomplete if you come to a stop in the middle of it, or anywhere short of your destination, but life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is a whole.
16) Everything hangs on one’s thinking. A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
17) It costs a person an enormous amount of time before he earns such compliments as ‘What a learned person!’. Let’s be content with the much less fashionable label, ‘What a good man!’.
18) Nature demanded nothing hard from us, nothing needs painful contriving to enable life to be kept going. We were born into a world in which things were ready to our hands; it is we who have made everything difficult to come by through our own disdain for what is easily come by
19) What you must do, then, is mend your ways and get rid of the burden you’re carrying. Keep your cravings within safe limits. Scour every trace of evil from your personality.
20) He needs but little who desires but little.
He has his wish, whose wish can be
To have what it enough.
He has his wish, whose wish can be
To have what it enough.
21) While we are young, we are able to learn; when the mind is quick to learn and still susceptible to training, we can turn it to better ends. Because this a good time for hard work, for studies as a means of keeping our brains alert and busy.
22) One of the causes of the troubles that beset us is the way our lives are guided by the example of others; instead of being set to rights by reason we’re seduces by convention.
23) There’s only one way to be happy and that’s to make the most of life.
24) No man’s good by accident. Virtue has to be learnt. Pleasure is a poor and petty thing. No value shout be set on it.
25) If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
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