September 26th WHAT TIME OFF IS FOR “Leisure without study is death—a tomb for the living person.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 82.4 #DailyStoic

September 25th THE VULNERABILITY OF DEPENDENCE “Show me someone who isn’t a slave! One is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to power, and all are slaves to fear. I could name a former Consul who is a slave to a little old woman, a millionaire who is the slave of the cleaning woman. . . . No servitude is more abject than the self-imposed.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 47.17 #DailyStoic

Late GM but a GM nonetheless ☀️

POV: your replies after insulting a man larping as a woman on nostr

September 24th IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU “Being unexpected adds to the weight of a disaster, and being a surprise has never failed to increase a person’s pain. For that reason, nothing should ever be unexpected by us. Our minds should be sent out in advance to all things and we shouldn’t just consider the normal course of things, but what could actually happen. For is there anything in life that Fortune won’t knock off its high horse if it pleases her?” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 91.3a–4 #DailyStoic