writings from the ancient things with a central theme around being at the present
In letters from a Stoic, the Roman Senator and Stoic philosopher Seneca would write to his friend Lucilius to remind him of the shortness of human lives and why we should live it on a per-day basis. To make a point, he would borrow a remark from the philosopher Heraclitus saying “One day is equal to every day.” He goes to explain that “One day is equal…
In this first letter, Seneca stressed out the importance of valuing time. To make a point he said that time is the only commodity we own. “Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time.” Seneca describes how we waste our time and how we can make use of it to the fullest. As for the former, he said that we waste our time if we do bad things (vices), do nothing, or…
[View Handbook] A lot of people compare Stoicism to Buddhism as ancient stoics puts a huge emphasis on living in the present moment. Whether it be the works of Seneca, Epictetus or Marcus Aurelius, time is viewed as probably the most important commodity given to man. As Marcus Aurelius put it, “That the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is…