June 2, 2012

  • Week 22: Seneca

    A long, long time ago, MichMich sent me a PDF file of Seneca's "Letters From a Stoic." I recently rediscovered the file on my computer and thought I should probably continue chipping away at it.

    There are apparently 124 letters. I couldn't remember which I had read up to last time, so I skimmed a few looking for things that I had remembered reading. Found this gem in Letter 58:

    He who dies just because he is in pain is a weakling, a coward; but he who lives merely to brave out this pain, is a fool.