[note color="#ffec9e"]Note: please visit my letters from a stoic website and Seneca iTunes Podcast page for all 124 letters written and read.[/note] I am reading Seneca: Letters From a Stoic. This was written in the year 64. What is amazing is the wisdom that he imparted as he neared death. How pertinent it was then, how pertinent it is today. I have decided to go … [Read more...] about Seneca, Letters and Philosophy – The Pasquini Family
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Like Cows in the Rain
“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.” From the Four Hour Work Week; Colin Wilson, British author of the Outsider. I found this quote poignant. It is part of the reason we feel pride as we watch the recent protests in Egypt. Most of us suffer for long periods of times, weather in a job, a marriage, a … [Read more...] about Like Cows in the Rain