Sublime

Seneca was the best writer of the bunch, and his essays and letters to Lucilius form a quite accessible introduction to Roman Stoicism. Musonius is notable for his pragmatism: He offered detailed advice on how practicing Stoics should eat, what they should wear, how they should behave toward their parents, and even how they should conduct their sex

Seneca was important in the time of the Renaissance in three sometimes interrelated but conceptually distinct ways. 12 First, his prose work—along with the philosophical writings of Cicero, which were even more widely read—was one of the primary sources for ancient Stoicism

For that, though, its representative must be a priest, not a huckster.

And finally, the wise man regards the reason for all his actions, but not the results. The beginning is in our own power; fortune decides the issue, but I do not allow her to pass sentence upon myself. You may say: "But she can inflict a measure of suffering and of trouble." The highwayman does not pass sentence when he slays. Now

Agis en tout comme si Épicure te regardait. » Il est utile sans doute de s'être imposé un surveillant, d'avoir un modèle à contempler, qui intervienne et se fasse sentir dans toutes tes pensées. Il est bien plus admirable encore de vivre comme un la présence continuelle et sous les yeux de quelque homme de bien ;

Julius Canus was executed soon afterward—but at least, so Seneca assures us, he went out with true philosophical dignity.

there are some we should count not even as animate creatures but as corpses. A person is alive when he is of use to many; he is alive when he is of use to himself. Slackers who hide out at home might as well be in the tomb. Go ahead and write it in marble above their door: