Public Ponder

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 →

“There is a world of difference between, on the one hand, choosing not to do what is wrong and, on the other, not knowing how to do it in the first place.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic ...Read More →

"To expect punishment is to suffer it; and to earn it is to expect it. Where there is a bad conscience, some circumstance or other may provide one with impunity, but never with freedom from anxiety." ...Read More →

“The growth of things is a tardy process and their undoing is a rapid matter.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic. One of the earliest lessons of childhood is that building something takes a ...Read More →

“No one confines his unhappiness to the present,” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic Is it possible for anyone to live in the present? I say it is -for a fraction of the time. Here are some...Read More →

“If we were born in a state of moral enlightenment, wisdom would have been deprived of the best thing about her — that she isn’t one of the things which fortune either gives us or doesn’t. As things...Read More →

"The more the mind takes in the more it expands.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic Everyone knows that the more you learn about a subject, the more you find how much more there is to it. This...Read More →

Consider these two quotes from Seneca the Younger in Letters from a Stoic: “Whatever can happen at any moment can happen today.” “Just as I know that anything is capable of happening so also do I know...Read More →

“How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant and the things that are honourable finally become, for you, the same.” Seneca the ...Read More →

“A man who follows someone else not only does not find anything, he is not even looking… Yes indeed, I shall use the old road, but if I find a shorter and easier one I shall open it up. The men who...Read More →