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From Moral letters to Lucilius/Letter 51 (Kindle):
- Seneca Quote
From Moral letters to Lucilius/Letter 17: One cannot greet Parthian royalty without bringing a gift; and in your case I cannot say farewell without paying a price. But what of it? I shall borrow from Epicurus: "The acquisition of riches has been for many...
- Seneca's Moral Letters To Lucilius
A good online collection of Seneca's letters... Link to: Moral letters to Lucilius Letter 2 is one of my favorites. I've put up a couple of quotes on the blog before, from a slightly different translation. Here are a couple of those quotes...
- The Trouble With Freedom – By John Gray
Found via Farnam Street. Not long after the start of the 21st Century, we like to tell ourselves an uplifting story in which freedom expands whenever tyranny is overthrown. We believe that freedom and democracy are inseparable, so that when a dictator...
- The Greatest Deception In The History Of Finance - By Kent Thune
So, if wanting more is a natural human behavior and we are deluged daily with enticing messages that encourage and support this behavior, what can be done, if anything, to manage this challenge? To help make my point, I will defer to an anecdote delivered...
- Happy 4th Of July!
Happy 4th of July to all of you! I'm so blessed to live in a country where I have the freedom to pursue just about anything that I want to go after. I'm also so glad to be in a position to pursue financial freedom. Safe travels to...
Money and Finance
Seneca on freedom
From Moral letters to Lucilius/Letter 51 (Kindle):
Fortune is fighting against me, and I shall not carry out her commands. I refuse to submit to the yoke; nay rather, I shake off the yoke that is upon me, – an act which demands even greater courage. The soul is not to be pampered; surrendering to pleasure means also surrendering to pain, surrendering to toil, surrendering to poverty. Both ambition and anger will wish to have the same rights over me as pleasure, and I shall be torn asunder, or rather pulled to pieces, amid all these conflicting passions. I have set freedom before my eyes; and I am striving for that reward. And what is freedom, you ask? It means not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms. And on the day when I know that I have the upper hand, her power will be naught.
- Seneca Quote
From Moral letters to Lucilius/Letter 17: One cannot greet Parthian royalty without bringing a gift; and in your case I cannot say farewell without paying a price. But what of it? I shall borrow from Epicurus: "The acquisition of riches has been for many...
- Seneca's Moral Letters To Lucilius
A good online collection of Seneca's letters... Link to: Moral letters to Lucilius Letter 2 is one of my favorites. I've put up a couple of quotes on the blog before, from a slightly different translation. Here are a couple of those quotes...
- The Trouble With Freedom – By John Gray
Found via Farnam Street. Not long after the start of the 21st Century, we like to tell ourselves an uplifting story in which freedom expands whenever tyranny is overthrown. We believe that freedom and democracy are inseparable, so that when a dictator...
- The Greatest Deception In The History Of Finance - By Kent Thune
So, if wanting more is a natural human behavior and we are deluged daily with enticing messages that encourage and support this behavior, what can be done, if anything, to manage this challenge? To help make my point, I will defer to an anecdote delivered...
- Happy 4th Of July!
Happy 4th of July to all of you! I'm so blessed to live in a country where I have the freedom to pursue just about anything that I want to go after. I'm also so glad to be in a position to pursue financial freedom. Safe travels to...