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Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
profit and money making to excess and self-indulgence.
Hermann Simon • Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything
pleasures, when they go beyond proper measure, are but punishments.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 83.27
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
Delusion: The desire, and its resultant emotions, often spin out of control resulting in us losing all sense and sensibility.
Janki Santoke • The Happiness Guarantee
still regards some as less appropriate to a person who has expressed a commitment to frugality, so also there are places the man of wisdom, or the one making progress toward wisdom, will avoid as ill-adapted to excellence of character.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca • Letters on Ethics: To Lucilius (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Indeed, pursuing pleasure, Seneca warns, is like pursuing a wild beast: On being captured, it can turn on us and tear us to pieces. Or, changing the metaphor a bit, he tells us that intense pleasures, when captured by us, become our captors, meaning that the more pleasures a man captures,
William B. Irvine • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
offenses; lying, flattering, voting, contracting yourselves into a nutshell of civility or dilating into an atmosphere of thin and vaporous generosity,
Henry David Thoreau • Walden
It is difficult to describe the rapacity with which the American rushes forward to secure the immense booty which fortune proffers to him. In the pursuit he fearlessly braves the arrow of the Indian and the distempers of the forest; he is unimpressed by the silence of the woods; the approach of beasts of prey does not disturb him; for he is goaded
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