Blog - Notes from the attic
Posts tagged with philosophy
-
Seneca: On how to live & die
“Learning how to live takes a whole life, and, which may surprise you more, it takes a whole life to learn how to die.” A beautiful little book by Seneca (4BC-AD 65) fell into my hands called On the shortness of life, title which - I must say - caught…
-
Epictetus: The stoic way of acceptance
“When you are delighted with anything, be delighted as with a thing which is not one of those which cannot be taken away, but as something of such a kind, as an earthen pot is, or a glass cup, that, when it has been broken, you may remember what it…