Sublime

Your philosophy is what you know, how you hold it, and how it affects what you do.

Then what can guide us? Only philosophy. Which means making sure that the power within stays safe and free from assault, superior to pleasure and pain, doing nothing randomly or dishonestly and with imposture, not dependent on anyone else’s doing something or not doing it. And making sure that it accepts what happens and what it is dealt as coming

Of course, the old world is far from being completely dead. Religion, family, marriage, motherhood, modesty, even virginity itself, are still on a solid footing in many places around the world. But what the philosopher cares about is less what is than what is to come.

If you try to live without a philosophy of life, you will find yourself extemporizing your way through your days. As a result, your daily efforts are likely to be haphazard, and your life is likely to be misspent. What a waste!

It sits at the helm and steers a course for us who are tossed in waves of uncertainty. Without it, there is no life that is not full of care and anxiety. For countless things happen every hour that need the advice philosophy alone can give.

La simple raison de philosopher est que cela permet de mieux vivre, de vivre du moins mal possible, pourrait-on dire. Chez Sénèque, la philosophie est là pour montrer qu’il y a urgence à vivre. Il y a urgence à vivre, à vivre selon sa propre essence, car l’avenir est incertain et la mort menace. Dans ses Lettres à Lucilius, il nous dit que, « penda

Philosophy