Author: Daniella Mini

2,000+ year-old Roman philosopher by the name of Lucius Annaeus Seneca has been one of my closest companions during this time of quarantine The reason for this is that, thirty days ago, I took up a...Read More →

“Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when it lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size… Yes,...Read More →

"The active man should be able to take things easily, while the man who is inclined towards repose should be capable of action.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic The Stoics, in general, were...Read More →

“There is a sequence about the creative process, and a work of genius is a synthesis of its individual features from which nothing can be subtracted without disaster.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters...Read More →

“You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to do good becomes a disposition to good.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic Everything all self-help gurus say seems to have...Read More →

“The outcome of violent anger is a mental raving, and therefore anger is to be avoided not for the sake of moderation but for the sake of sanity.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic Anger, it...Read More →

Seneca, like all Stoics, was obsessed with death. His writings are full of reflections on death: how to approach it, how to regard it, and, above all, how to use the awareness of it to help us lead our...Read More →

“Happy the man who improves other people not merely when he is in their presence but even when he is in their thoughts! And happy, too, is the person who can so revere another as to adjust and shape his...Read More →

"It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the man who hankers for more." Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic This sentence from Letter II is one of Seneca's most often quoted ones....Read More →

Today marks day 20 of my 30-day challenge to write a piece on a different quote from Seneca’s “Letters from a Stoic” for 30 consecutive days.  I’ve been pondering a simple question today: Who’s getting...Read More →