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“As it is with a play, so it is with life — what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic It’s torture to sit through a movie or play ...Read More →

“Vices are manifold, take countless different forms and are incapable of classification. Devotion to what is right is simple, devotion to what is wrong is complex and admits of infinite variations.”...Read More →

“It is a great man that can treat his earthenware as if it was silver, and a man who treats his silver as if it was earthenware is no less great.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic I’m sad to...Read More →

“You will die not because you are sick but because you are alive. That end still awaits you when you have been cured.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic Most of the time, we are oblivious to...Read More →

On March 4, 1865, forty-one days before he was assassinated, Abraham Lincoln delivered his Second Inaugural Address in Washington, DC. The speech is dense, and documents, in the 16th President’s own...Read More →