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- Seneca Quote
"When we can never prove whether we really know a thing, we must always be learning it." -Seneca, Letters from a Stoic ...
- Seneca Quote
"The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company." -Seneca, Letters from a Stoic ...
- 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...
- Nassim Taleb On Stoics And Stoicism
From Fooled by Randomness:"Having control over randomness can be expressed in the manner in which one acts in the small and the large. Recall that epic heroes were judged by their actions, not by the results. No matter how sophisticated our choices, how...
- The Wisdom Of The Stoics: Selections From Seneca, Epictetus, And Marcus Aurelius
Frances and Henry Hazlitt (yes, the author of the great Economics in One Lesson) put together this wonderful compilation of wisdom from three great Stoics. I found this a little while back and Miguel's post from earlier today inspired me to finally...
Money and Finance
Seneca quote
"Be careful, however, lest this reading of many authors and books of every sort may tend to make you discursive and unsteady. You must linger among a limited number of master thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind. Everywhere means nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. And the same thing must hold true of men who seek intimate acquaintance with no single author, but visit them all in a hasty and hurried manner." -Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
- Seneca Quote
"When we can never prove whether we really know a thing, we must always be learning it." -Seneca, Letters from a Stoic ...
- Seneca Quote
"The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company." -Seneca, Letters from a Stoic ...
- 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...
- Nassim Taleb On Stoics And Stoicism
From Fooled by Randomness:"Having control over randomness can be expressed in the manner in which one acts in the small and the large. Recall that epic heroes were judged by their actions, not by the results. No matter how sophisticated our choices, how...
- The Wisdom Of The Stoics: Selections From Seneca, Epictetus, And Marcus Aurelius
Frances and Henry Hazlitt (yes, the author of the great Economics in One Lesson) put together this wonderful compilation of wisdom from three great Stoics. I found this a little while back and Miguel's post from earlier today inspired me to finally...