Letters From a Stoic

This, the summum bonum or ‘spreme ideal’, i uly sumzed in acient phlosophy as a combination of four qualities: wisdom (or moral iight), couage, selfcontrol adjutice (or upright dealing

Nothing, to my way of tg, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he i ad pass some time in his own compay

Trstig everone is a much a fault a trsting no one (though I should cl te frst the worthier ad te second the safer behaviour

I T i cle to you, I know, Lucilius, tat no one c led a happy lfe, or eve one that is beable, without te pursuit of wsdom, and that the perfection of wisdom i what make te happy life, although eve the bengs ofwisdom make life beable

Without it no one c led a lfe fee of fe or worry. Every hou of the day countles situation arise tt cl for advce, ad for that advice we have to look to philosophy

If you shape your lie accordng to nte, you wl never be poor

If you shape your lie accordng to nte, you wl never be poor; i according to people’s opion, you wil never be rch.’

A persn who h lened how to die h uneed how to be a slave.

A consciousness of wrongdoing . is te fst step to salvation

How much longer are you going to sere under others’ orders? Assume authority yourself and utter something that may be handed dow to posterity. Produce sometg fom you own resources

For that is what philosophy ha promised me - that she wl me me God’s equ. That’s the invittion ad that’s wht I’ve come for ; b a good a you word

Wen one h lost a fiend one’s eyes shoud be neiter dry nor streaming

Wen one h lost a fiend one’s eyes shoud be neiter dry nor streaming. Tes, yes, there should be, but not lametaton

In the pleue we fd i the memory of departed fiends there i a resemblace to the way in which certain bitter fruit are agreeble or te very acidity of a exceedingly old wine h it atraction

am too great, wa hom to too gret a destiny to be my body’s slave

I am too great, wa hom to too gret a destiny to be my body’s slave

Refl to b iueced by one’s body asure one’s feedom

What realy rs ou characers is the fc that none of u looks back over his life. We t about what we ae going to do, ad ony rrely of that, ad f to t about what we have done, yet ay pla for te fte ae dependent on the pat

Wat’s the ue ofovercoming opponet a opponent in the wetl or boxng rings iyou c b overcome by you temper

To lose someone you love i something you’ll regad as the hardest of all blows to bea, while all the time this will be a sly a cryig because the leaves fll fom the beautiful tree that add to the charm of your home

Things tend, i fact, to go wrong ; part of the blame lies on the teachers of philosophy, who today teach us how to ague instead of how to live, part on their students, who come to the teachers i the frst place with a view to developig not their character but their itellect. The result ha been the trasformation of philosophy, the study of widom, into philology, the study ofword

heaviest particles and any cloudiness settling to the bottom. It is just the same with human life. The best comes frst

Life’s fnest days, for u poor hu big \ Fly fst