Seneca said, “No slavery is more disgraceful than one which is self-imposed.” Remember that, when you say yes to things that take you away from your family when you should be there with them. Remember that, when you say yes to your vices instead of the virtues to which you …
Morituri Salutamus – Poem For The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Class Of 1825 In Bowdoin College by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies.–OVID, Fastorum, Lib. vi. “O Caesar, we who are about to die Salute you!” was the gladiators’ cry In the …
I recently became aware of the poem below, written by English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and could not help but think it must have been inspired to some degree by stoic philosophy. Specifically the following Marcus Aurelius quote on the emptiness of fame. People who are excited by posthumous …
