Seneca - Moral Letters - 31: On Siren Songs
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- Опубліковано 3 лют 2025
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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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"There is only one good, the cause and the support of a happy life, - trust in oneself
I should rebuke men who toil to no purpose. But when, on the other hand, a man is struggling towards honourable things, in proportion as he applies himself more and more, and allows himself less and less to be beaten or to halt, I shall recommend his conduct and shout my encouragement
Make yourself happy through your own efforts
Work is the sustenance of noble minds,
it is base for a man who has already travelled the whole round of highest honours to be still importuning the gods
What we have to seek for, then, is that which does not each day pass more and more under the control of some power which cannot be withstood. And what is this? It is the soul"
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The last part really hit a nice note with me. Mold and fashion your kingship with thy God, will not be done with such materials as gold and silver but that of clay. Paraphrase abit there, very beautiful words with a beautiful message. Maybe hints of Christian gnostic elements there but this is all relative to the time seems you can always go back deeper and further in history which give your current life so much more depth and beauty.
I think Christianity has aspects of stoicism rather, christianity was shaped by the western roman empire, original sin and judgement and the second coming do not come from Jesus, but from Paul and Other Roman Nobels who were tasked with governing those parts of the empire
Happiness can be archived by focusing on what we can control
"work is the sustenance of noble minds"...Seneca's message to youth that does not work :)
You know when he talks about the spirit which Insights you to uphill struggle being kinda abstracted and eternal, so that you're cultivating the same spirit whether on the battlefield or going for a jog or doing a big pile of paperwork, the spirit itself isnt contained in the circumstance but it's kinda in some overarching Soul that's available to everyone if they step up and take on these burdens.. It reminds me a lot of the things David Goggins says.. The only difference is Goggins doesnt care about how sophisticated his arguments are.. But to me that's basically his message
I struggle towards honorable things as much as I can. But today I made the likes number 69 so I will try being honorable tomorrow.