La brevità della vita

The great Roman philosopher, statesman, dramatist Seneca ( BC 4 – AD 64) wrote many letters encouraging friends to apply themselves to the task of living a free, wise, tranquil and joyful life. On the Shortness of Life is one of my personal favorites since Seneca, ever the true eclectic, brilliantly Leggi tutto

Now that I've read a few philosophical essays by Seneca the Younger, I am inclined to believe every bad thing I have ever heard about him. Before this, I've cut him some slack. Sure, he—along with his cronies, one of whom was Burrus, prefect of the Praetorian Guard—ruled Rome during his pupil Nero's Leggi tutto

The problem, Paulinus, is not that we have a short life, but that we waste time.Life is long and there is enough of it for satisfying personal accomplishments if we use our hours well.But when time is squandered in the pursuit of pleasure or vain idleness, when it is spent with no real purpose, the

"Can anything be more idiotic than certain people who boast of their foresight? They keep themselves officiously preoccupied in order to improve their lives; they spend their lives in organizing their lives. They direct their purposes with an eye to a distant future. But putting things off is the bi Leggi tutto

This is an excellent philosophical essay written by Seneca, one of the most significant Roman philosophers and one whom we might call the father of Stoicism. The problem is simple, we are never content and happy with our lives and at the end we think it was too short. The solution is even simpler; w Leggi tutto

I am writing this review as a layperson, Philosophy isn’t my area of expertise and my level of knowledge is limited at best. I ended up here, as I’ve been researching Rome for an upcoming holiday. I’ve taken an interest in that crazy gang of early Roman Emperors from Augustus to Nero (i.e. the Julio Leggi tutto

“De vivir, se ha de aprender toda la vida, y lo que acaso te sorprenda más, toda la vida se ha de aprender a morir” Conciliar una buena vida con una muerte segura es la principal tarea que tiene todo el que aborde este complicado tema de la felicidad. Hay quién intenta que nada le afecte, hay q Leggi tutto

This Stoic's three writings in this book came at a perfect time for me. I feel that I'm at a point when you want to look at your life, and make sure the rest of it goes more in the way you want. It's true that the life is more likely to be longer now than how it was then (even for the richest and lu Leggi tutto

It is amazing how something written so long ago can have such relevance today. I found this essay really inspiring. here is a good quote: "Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well inve Leggi tutto

Повечето от нас живеят така, като че ли ще живеят вечно, отбелязва Сенека преди повече от 2000 години. Малко се е променило оттогава в това отношение. Пилеем време сякаш има откъде да си го набавим, когато пясъчните часовници на живота ни се поизпразнят. Нещо повече. Когато ни остане свободно време, Leggi tutto