Public Ponder

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 →

“To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind himself.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic Fear drives what we do in many...Read More →

“So long as you associate with a person who’s mean and grasping you will remain a money-minded individual yourself. So long as you keep arrogant company, just so long will conceit stick to you. Cruelty...Read More →

“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 →