Money and Finance
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A Dozen Things Learned from Seneca The Younger About Venture Capital, Startups, Business and Life (LINK) Related Kindle book: Complete Works of Seneca the Younger [For more from Seneca, see the first 5 listed books HERE.] Related previous post: Stoicism...
- Seneca Quote
"...a man cannot stand prepared for the approach of death if he has just begun to live. We must make it our aim already to have lived long enough. No one deems that he has done so, if he is just on the point of planning his life. You need not think that...
- Seneca Quote
"...why should I demand of Fortune that she give rather than demand of myself that I should not crave? And why should I crave? Shall I heap up my winnings, and forget that man's lot is unsubstantial? For what end should I toil? Lo, to-day is the last;...
- Seneca Quote
“Never have I put my trust in Fortune, even when she appeared to be offering peace; all those gifts she bestowed on me in her kindness—money, position, influence—I stored where she would be able to reclaim them with no disturbance to me.” –Seneca,...
- Nassim Taleb On Seneca
From the end of Russ Roberts’ interview with Nassim Taleb: RR: Here's a little postscript. You wanted to say something else about Seneca. Go ahead. NT: Most people don't understand what Stoic is. They think that a stoic wants to sort of be...
Money and Finance
Seneca quote
“Let us go to our sleep with joy and gladness; let us say 'I have lived; the course which Fortune set for me is finished.' And if God is pleased to add another day, we should welcome it with glad hearts. That man is happiest, and is secure in his own possession of himself, who can await the morrow without apprehension. When a man has said: 'I have lived!', every morning he arises he receives a bonus.” –Seneca
- Links
A Dozen Things Learned from Seneca The Younger About Venture Capital, Startups, Business and Life (LINK) Related Kindle book: Complete Works of Seneca the Younger [For more from Seneca, see the first 5 listed books HERE.] Related previous post: Stoicism...
- Seneca Quote
"...a man cannot stand prepared for the approach of death if he has just begun to live. We must make it our aim already to have lived long enough. No one deems that he has done so, if he is just on the point of planning his life. You need not think that...
- Seneca Quote
"...why should I demand of Fortune that she give rather than demand of myself that I should not crave? And why should I crave? Shall I heap up my winnings, and forget that man's lot is unsubstantial? For what end should I toil? Lo, to-day is the last;...
- Seneca Quote
“Never have I put my trust in Fortune, even when she appeared to be offering peace; all those gifts she bestowed on me in her kindness—money, position, influence—I stored where she would be able to reclaim them with no disturbance to me.” –Seneca,...
- Nassim Taleb On Seneca
From the end of Russ Roberts’ interview with Nassim Taleb: RR: Here's a little postscript. You wanted to say something else about Seneca. Go ahead. NT: Most people don't understand what Stoic is. They think that a stoic wants to sort of be...