Seneca - Moral Letters - 56: On Quiet and Study
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
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The Moral Letter to Lucilius are a collection of 124 letters which were written by Seneca the Younger at the end of his life, during his retirement, and written after he had worked for the Emperor Nero for fifteen years. (These Moral Letters are the same letters which Tim Ferriss promotes in the Tao of Seneca)
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Translated by Richard Mott Gummere: en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_...
Notes:
“For of what benefit is a quiet neighbourhood, if our emotions are in an uproar?”
“We must therefore rouse ourselves to action and busy ourselves with interests that are good, as often as we are in the grasp of an uncontrollable sluggishness.”
“So with greed, ambition, and the other evils of the mind, - you may be sure that they do most harm when they are hidden behind a pretence of soundness.”
“You may therefore be sure that you are at peace with yourself, when no noise readies you, when no word shakes you out of yourself, whether it be of flattery or of threat, or merely an empty sound buzzing about you with unmeaning din”
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Thank you for this
Perhaps one day, you may give our dear Virgil's Aneid voice? ( In verse as well, not prose).
Umm, Seneca...did'nt he live in ancient Greece? Because...in the beginning, he really describes modern life...and its noises...Honestly, I'd love to have visited where he lived... :)Thanks for posting :)
Yes I'm always amazed at the sophistication of Roman life and how many similarities it had with our own. Court rooms, gymnasiums, rule of law etc.
And they had noisy lanes (streets) but they were noisy not because of cars. But because of horses that made noise when hitting the stone road. It was really noisy
He was roman but not really ancient roman he was one of Nero's advisers for a time.
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How ironic that just a few years after this was written Seneca left the city for the countryside because of the noise.
One of the few times I disagree with Seneca. Noise can kill your sleep, concentration and productivity. Trust me I know. Best decision I ever made for both myself and my business was buy a home somewhere quiet.
This is supported by loads of scientific evidence on how noise(such as a train or airport) has dramatic effects on learning, productivity and stress levels.
why the f was he living above a bathhouse to begin with?
John Henninger Don’t all great philosophers live above bath houses?