How a translation of “The Iliad” into modern language reinforces its relevance. PBS https://youtu.be/6ALC6-5Apzs?si=s5AurPqk1_RdNSCv Wilson‘s tattoos are nifty!
GondorGirl Emily Wilson is simply fantastic! 😍 6mo
How a translation of “The Iliad” into modern language reinforces its relevance. PBS https://youtu.be/6ALC6-5Apzs?si=s5AurPqk1_RdNSCv Wilson‘s tattoos are nifty!
One of my absolute favourite quotes, by Seneca.
"It is not that we have a short time to live, it is that we waste a lot of it... People are frugal in guarding their personal property, but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy."
pickLovely little gem added to my Stoicism collection!
Read my review- https://wp.me/p6C2DX-2YN
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“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.” - Seneca
Rest In Peace Billy.
July 30, 1997 - June 15, 2020
Til Valhalla Brother
pickThis is not an attempt to rate such a book, but rather a Pick for me.
Ancient stoic mindfulness, preceding and inspiring contemporary self-help and motivational literature.
There is so much common sense in this writing, I now understand why Seneca is considered one of the most accessible and easy to digest philosophers.
Some self-help pieces of advice from 2,000 years ago, still applicable today:
✔ “we are all bound by this oath: to bear the ills of mortal life, and to submit with a good grace to what we cannot avoid.“
✔ “No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don't have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.“
From the father of mindfulness: “Present time is very brief, so brief, indeed, that to some there seems to be none; for it is always in motion, it ever flows and hurries on; it ceases to be before it has come, and can no more brook delay than the firmament or the stars, whose ever unresting movement never lets them abide in the same track. The engrossed, therefore, are concerned with present time alone and it is so brief that it cannot be grasped“
