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Seneca on overcoming stress
The concept of stress in our century is dramatically different from the concepts in prior centuries. People in the Middle Ages or in Ancient Rome […]
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How to practise Seneca’s art of patience
Stoicism is often presented as a purely reactive philosophy. Its role is to toughen the soul for enduring setbacks, adversity, and eventually death; and its […]
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Seneca and the art of patience
Patience and endurance have become the archetypal virtues of those who claim to be enlightened. When the situation gets from bad to worse, they are […]
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Philosophical lessons from Seneca’s tragedies
Every artwork entails magnification. It blows some aspects of reality out of proportion to underline their significance from the creator’s viewpoint. Other aspects are minimized, […]
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Seneca on overcoming envy and jealousy
Even the smartest, most enlightened humans are doomed to suffer from envy and jealousy. Seneca (4 BC-65 AD) analysed the problem and came up with […]
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Seneca on dealing with betrayal
Forgiveness has become the universal recipe for betrayal, at least theoretically. Moral leaders tell their flock to forget what they have suffered, purify their hearts, […]
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Was Seneca wrong about revenge?
Let us beware of people who preach passivity because they might be trying to slow us down. If they have already taken advantage of the […]
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Seneca’s thoughts on revenge
Most philosophers get it wrong about revenge, and Seneca (4 BC-65 AD) was no exception. In his dialogues titled “On Anger” and “On Clemency,” he […]
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What Seneca taught about dealing with failure
In the next points, I am going to summarise the advice from Seneca (4 BC-65 AD) about dealing with failure. He devoted a couple of […]
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The main benefit from reading Seneca today
Few people read books written a hundred years ago. Even fewer show interest for books written two thousand years ago. I am one of those […]
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