Seneca - Moral Letters - 82: On the Natural Fear of Death
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- Опубліковано 4 січ 2020
- This is my own recording of a public domain text. It is not copied and I retain the copyright.
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 the soul is made womanish by degrees, and is weakened until it matches the ease and laziness in which it lies”
“Both extremes are to be deprecated - both tension and sluggishness.”
“Leisure without study is death; it is a tomb for the living man.”
“Fortune [can] seize none except him that clings to her.”
“nothing glorious can result from unwillingness and cowardice; virtue does nothing under compulsion.”
“You cannot "still braver go," if you are persuaded that those things are the real evils. Root out this idea from your soul; otherwise your apprehensions will remain undecided and will thus check the impulse to action”
“Away, I say, with all that sort of thing, which makes a man feel, when a question is propounded to him, that he is hemmed in, and forces him to admit a premiss, and then makes him say one thing in his answer when his real opinion is another”
“Away, I say, with all that sort of thing, which makes a man feel, when a question is propounded to him, that he is hemmed in, and forces him to admit a premiss, and then makes him say one thing in his answer when his real opinion is another”
“certain arguments are rendered useless and unavailing by their very subtlety”
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Beautiful sentiments of a noble man
I see someone had a new Year's Resolution. Welcome back Robin!
I had actually been recording a novel to release over Christmas but when I approached the author he wasn't interested so I had to can it all. Amor fati and back to the classics for me in 2020 :)
Welcome back! Was looking forward to this.
After listening to several of the letters you have published, I’m impressed on how Seneca is consistent in his philosophy.
Awesome. Work.🌌
Excellent as always Robin
12:00 replace "death" with "change of mind" when you discover something that renders a previously held belief system impossible.. and there are some deep psychological truths
" It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork."
Mark Twain - More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927
@Gustav Bekker human meat tastes and smells like pork
HELLO! Could you please make an audiobook of 'THE LAST DAYS OF SOCRETES' by Plato itwould be great.
Do you have a link to the text?
@@VoxStoica sure I'll give you link of Amazon from where you can buy.
@@VoxStoica E book link
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13726
@@VoxStoica i prefer you to go and check on Amazon the penguin classics one.
@@prabuddh_mathur Here's the Apology, I'll take a look at the other parts later.
ua-cam.com/video/6jvMkuVUyPU/v-deo.html
7:40 to 8:06
Which Brutus was this? Not Marcus Junius Brutus. He ran onto his own sword held by two of his men. Then who?
Possibly Decimus Junius Brutus
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimus_Junius_Brutus_Albinus
7:35 Did this really happen? Didnt Brutus watch his son get beheaded over a pointless war he started.. And even then he was afraid to die.. That's not even unwise that's almost inhuman.. You dont need to be a Stoic to feel that bar right there lol