"Letters from a Stoic by Seneca"
The book has charmed me into deeper reading. It was a joy to read this remarkable work of philosophy. The writing was pure and the wisdom in the letters is still applicable today in our everyday life.
12 lessons from the book 📚
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The book has charmed me into deeper reading. It was a joy to read this remarkable work of philosophy. The writing was pure and the wisdom in the letters is still applicable today in our everyday life.
12 lessons from the book 📚
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1) 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.
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.
2) ‘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.
That is progress indeed.
Such a person will never be alone, and you may be sure he is a friend of all.
3) 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.
4) 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.
5) A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation.
6) 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.
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.
7) Treat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors.
8) 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.
At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is a whole.
9) 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!".
Let’s be content with the much less fashionable label, "What a good man!".
10) 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.
Keep your cravings within safe limits.
Scour every trace of evil from your personality.
11) 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.
12) There’s only one way to be happy and that’s to make the most of life.
Seneca’s letters read like a diary or a handbook of philosophical meditations. Often beginning with observations on daily life, the letters focus on many traditional themes of Stoic philosophy, such as the contempt of death, the value of friendship, & virtue as the supreme good.
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