Senecas quote of the day highlights a simple but powerful Stoic idea about happiness. He suggests that true peace of mind is ...

Seneca's musings on the tension between public and private life remain as approachable and fresh as they were two millennia ago. Wilson’s point of departure in her life of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 ...

Two thousand years ago, under the reign of Roman emperor Tiberius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca was learning from his tutor how to live a good life. His tutor was an adherent of Stoicism, a philosophy that ...

To live through a pandemic, Albert Camus wrote, is to be made to live as an exile. Lovers are parted from lovers, (grand)parents from children, families from their dead. And we are exiled from many ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Some of the greatest leaders in history were Stoics: Cicero, Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius. It’s no surprise considering Stoicism’s ...

“Only virtue is lofty and exalted, nor is anything great if it is not also calm.” Thus Seneca the Younger in his essay On Anger, written in (probably) the 40’s A.D. Nearly two thousand years later, ...

Detox is necessary even for desires. This means we must constantly rid ourselves of greed. Tim Ferriss, a bestselling author, ...

The Suicide of Seneca, by Manuel Domínguez Sánchez (1871). Source: Wikicommons/public domain I should clearly state from the outset that, while the Stoics may have recognized the potential glory of ...