Welcome to Sundays with Seneca on the Perennial Meditations podcast. Join us as we search for ancient lessons for modern life in Stoic philosophy.
Today’s selected reading comes from a letter titled On the Philosopher’s Mean. Seneca stressed to Luciulius:
“I commend you and rejoice in the fact that you are persistent in your studies and that, putting all else aside, you make it each day your endeavor to become a better man. I do not merely exhort you to keep at it; I actually beg you to do so. […]
Philosophy calls for plain living but not for penance; we may perfectly well be plain and neat at the same time. This is the mean by which I approve; our life should observe a happy medium between the ways of a sage and the ways of the world at large.” […]
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Until next time, be wise and be well,
JW
