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“Mark off, I tell you, and review the days of your life: you will see that very few—the useless remnants—have been left to you.”
Seneca
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On the Shortness of Life

On the Shortness of Life

by Seneca

Seneca was an old-school Roman statesman and one of history’s leading Stoic philosophers. In this ...

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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Plato’s Lemonade Stand

Plato’s Lemonade Stand

by Tom Morris

Tom Morris has a joint Ph.D. from Yale in Religious Studies and Philosophy and is one of the most po...
Make progress, and, before all else, try hard to be consistent with yourself.
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The Stoic Art of Living

The Stoic Art of Living

by Tom Morris

This is our fourth Note on one of Tom Morris’s books. As we discussed in our Notes on True Success...
Philosophy did not find Plato already a nobleman, it made him one.
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The Stoic Art of Living

by Tom Morris

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“So there you have, my dear Serenus, the means of preserving your tranquility, the means of restoring it, and the means of resisting the faults that creep up on you unawares. But be sure of this, that none of them is strong enough for those who want to preserve such a fragile thing, unless the wavering mind is surrounded by attentive and unceasing care.”
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On the Shortness of Life

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“So let all your activity be directed to some object, let it have some end in view.”
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On the Shortness of Life

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“He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a living man.”
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