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From Moral letters to Lucilius/Letter 17:
- 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....
- 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...
- Einstein Quote
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” -Albert Einstein ...
- Nassim Taleb On The Book "why Nations Fail: The Origins Of Power, Prosperity, And Poverty"
From his Amazon review: This is the best contemporary economics books I've read so far. a) There is a central point, b) The central point is clear -a version of the Golden Rule of symmetry and exploitation, c) It is convincing. Some agents try to...
- Seneca Quote
"Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day." -Seneca, Letters from a Stoic ...
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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 men, not an end, but a change, of troubles." I do not wonder. For the fault is not in the wealth, but in the mind itself. That which had made poverty a burden to us, has made riches also a burden. Just as it matters little whether you lay a sick man on a wooden or on a golden bed, for whithersoever he be moved he will carry his malady with him; so one need not care whether the diseased mind is bestowed upon riches or upon poverty. His malady goes with the man.
- 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....
- 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...
- Einstein Quote
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” -Albert Einstein ...
- Nassim Taleb On The Book "why Nations Fail: The Origins Of Power, Prosperity, And Poverty"
From his Amazon review: This is the best contemporary economics books I've read so far. a) There is a central point, b) The central point is clear -a version of the Golden Rule of symmetry and exploitation, c) It is convincing. Some agents try to...
- Seneca Quote
"Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day." -Seneca, Letters from a Stoic ...