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Three Huge Volumes of Stoic Writings by Seneca Now Free Online, Thanks to Tim Ferriss
Three Huge Volumes of Stoic Writings by Seneca Now Free Online, Thanks to Tim Ferriss
"The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today," wrote Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger.
"You are arranging what is in Fortune's control and abandoning what
lies in yours." That still much-quoted observation from
the first-century Roman philosopher and statesman, best known simply as Seneca,
has a place in a much larger body of work. Seneca's writings stand,
along with those of Zeno, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius, as a pillar of
Stoic
philosophy, a system of thinking which emphasizes the primacy of
personal virtue and the importance of observing oneself objectively and
mastering, instead of being mastered by, one's own emotions.
The Stoics found their way of life beneficial indeed in the harsh
reality of more than 2,000 years ago, but Stoicism loses none of its
value when practiced by those of us living today.
At its core, it teaches you how to separate what you can control from
what you cannot, and it trains you to focus exclusively on the former,"
writes self-improvement maven Tim Ferriss in his introduction to The Tao of Seneca,
the three-volume collection of Seneca's letters, illustration and lined
modern commentary, that he's just published free on the internet. (For
instructions on how to upload them to your Kindle, see this page.)
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