How To Read Seneca (The World’s Most Interesting Stoic)

I often wish I had done classics instead of English Lit! 1972 was the first year Oxford admitted
students to study Eng lit without Latin O Level, and I was thrown out of Latin quite early on!!
Since then I lived in Italy and nowadays Latin is not so distant for me. Just a pity Marcus Aurelius
wrote in Greek!

You're a good egg. I just bought your book The Obstacle is The Way, after reading Meditations. The Stoic ideals really helped me recently when I had a health scare and it has helped me see things differently. The mentality that I have already died and everything from now is a bonus to be lived right is transformative. Looking forward to reading your work.

There's a version of Letters of A Stoic that has all the 124 letters in shorter version. Called Digireads.

I believe there is also a Royal Collectors Edition and a All Three Volumes version.

Did Seneca really exchange letters with Paul the Apostle?

I read senne
ca Very good

The only real question is "What would MacGyver do?"

how do you know these descriptions, sayings are accurate? not saying they are not, just curious how this material can be known to be accurate.

I’m 24 and just recently found stoicism and didn’t realize this is what I was practicing throughout my life! I’m glad I found there’s an actual name to it!

A very lively presentation of Seneca's core concepts! Well done!

My mind is blown after experiencing the verbal eloquence of Seneca. I stumbled across stoicism philosophy and it's changing my cognitive perception of life completely.

Senecas are some cheap ass cigarettes for alcoholics and meth heads.

nice job!

Seneca: "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars."

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

Ryan, what you said at the opening of this piece is super cool…you found Seneca at about 19 and your life hasn’t been the same since. From that moment on this great thinker changed the trajectory of your life. Where you would be now if you hadn’t discovered the Stoics when you did is anyone’s guess, like it would be for me or anyone reading this…anyone in the world. Yours is a now famous example of how beautiful thoughts are the foundation for a life designed to thrive, because you studied the Stoics and literally used this life altering information as the vehicle for transformation- to alter your own life in all directions on the timeline…present, future, and PAST, from that moment on. It’s something I discovered years ago and have been encountering difficulty trying to explain it in a way that’s easy to understand. I think I’ll use you as my example. I’m a fan of your work and hope you’ll be pleased with the result. Much success to you!

Thank you dear Ryan

Thank you Ryan

@Daily Stoic, what is your goal?

And i just got to know him when I'm 25

I have an exam tomorrow morning and I'm reading Seneca 😅

He's a lowlife loan shark

lmao "how to read". The interpretation is for the solitarian to find, not for you to prescribe.

Thank You so much, for this useful guidance!❤

You're ignoring Epictetus. He said not to compare yourself to anyone except your past self.

Seneca had lived and worked for Ryan holiday

Odd. Randomly got this in my feed.. Thank you. Rekindled my love for philosophy.
Keep sharing mate. 😎
Was searching a quote I was sure was Twain.. Senica.. Nice

Brilliant thank you so much for such a spectacular lesson 😊

Sounds like he's old school Murphy's Law

Super gay that you think you can become wealthy without crime. Super gay.

Sometimes our death is a reflection of our deeds in life.

Love your videos on stoicism all the great philosophers at that time ,like to know more and learn more 🌸

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"It is not the things themselves that worry us, but our ideas and opinions about things !" (Epictetus; around 50 - 138 AD)

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I’m so lucky to have found this video. So much insight and new reading material that will further expand my knowledge on Seneca and stoicism!

The rock band Thrice has a really excellent album called “To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere” and has a song called Seneca. 🎸

Thanks for making this video. It’s great! I have a question. I’ve been meaning to read Seneca for a long time but I never have. I’m wanting to buy some of his work but I’m not sure what to buy. I’ve found a collection that is the complete works of Seneca in 7 books that seems to be the best modern translations from what I can tell. The problem is the books are really expensive. I’m wondering what are the must-haves or if they all are?For example I didn’t know that Seneca wrote Verse. I love Homer, Virgil, Ovid. Is Seneca’s verse on that level or should I be mainly buy the Prose/Letters? Thanks if you can help!

Can anyone tell me if „Letters from a stoic” is kinda the same book as ”Moral letters to Lucilius”, please?

I use to listen to audiobooks and didn’t know much about Ryan holiday besides his audio books but I hated them so much at first because I didn’t like books as much now and I say he has some great stuff like when to be able to explain, rephrase himself, go into a line, and edit something better. I can’t thank this man like I should he works hard and is the most integrity person to teach us. He’s been doing what the stoic people do and he for-sure doesn’t give up .

This guy is a fraud.

Nero killed both Seneca and St Paul? What a waste of space asshole

Ryan is a complete fraud, it’s all about marketing!

Why don't they teach this in schools? Im just finding out about all this at 65. Maybe a bit late for me now!? But fasinating stuff!!

Thank you for making me dislike Jim less.

Choose your heros but never meet them!

OMG you're a leftie 😍😍😍 me too, im liking my dude Seneca