Public Ponder

“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 →

“You should neither become like the bad because they are many, nor be an enemy of the many because they are unlike you.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic This quote made my head spin a little...Read More →

Dear Lucius Annaeus Seneca, I’ve read your compilation of letters known as Letters from a Stoic. Over the past nine days, I’ve shared a new quote from it with friends and acquaintances. I’ve reflected...Read More →

“After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic How many times have you found yourself justifying a friend’s motives? How many ...Read More →

"Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic This is one of the most often quoted sentences in Letters from a Stoic. It’s a simple, easy to recall...Read More →

“Praise in him what can neither be given nor snatched away.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic You have such a beautiful house. You’re gorgeous like a model. Wow, you have so many followers....Read More →