https://media.blubrry.com/littlebook/www.lettersfromastoic.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Letter_6_On_Sharing_Knowledge.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Email | RSSI feel, my dear Lucilius, that I am being not only reformed, but transformed. I do not yet, however, assure myself, or indulge the hope, that there are no elements left in me which need to be changed. Of course there are many that […]
Letter 5: On The Philosopher’s Mean
https://media.blubrry.com/littlebook/www.lettersfromastoic.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/05_Letter_5__On_The_Philosophers_Me.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Email | RSSBy Lucius Annaeus Seneca I commend you and rejoice in the fact that you are persistent in your studies, and that, putting all else aside, you make it each day your endeavour to become a better man. I do not merely exhort you to keep […]
Letter 4: On The Terrors of Death
https://media.blubrry.com/littlebook/www.lettersfromastoic.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/04_Letter_4__On_The_Terrors_of_Death.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Email | RSSBy Lucius Annaeus Seneca Keep on as you have begun, and make all possible haste, so that you may have longer enjoyment of an improved mind, one that is at peace with itself. Doubtless you will derive enjoyment during the time when you are improving […]
Letter 3: On True and False Friendship
https://media.blubrry.com/littlebook/www.lettersfromastoic.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/03_Letter_3__On_True_and_False_Frien.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Email | RSSBy Lucius Annaeus Seneca You have sent a letter to me through the hand of a “friend” of yours, as you call him. And in your very next sentence you warn me not to discuss with him all the matters that concern you, saying that […]
Letter 2: On Discursiveness in Reading
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