Ink & Oxygen

By The Confused Idealist

A daily reading of the next page or two of the current philosophical book we are reading. Each time we finish a book, we begin a new book from a different tradition.... more

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October 24, 2025Chapter 4: Of A Happy Life
Today, we read chapter 4 of, Of A Happy Life, by Seneca the Younger.
“A man of these principles, whether he will or no, must be accompanied by a continual cheerfulness, a high happiness, which comes indeed from on high because he delights in what he has, and desires no greater pleasures than those which his home affords.”
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October 23, 2025Chapter 3: Of A Happy Life
Today, we read chapter 3 of, Of A Happy Life, by Seneca the Younger.
“...for all savageness is a sign of weakness.”

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October 22, 2025Chapter 2: Of A Happy Life
Today, we read chapter 2 of, Of A Happy Life, by Seneca the Younger.
“By 'the vulgar' I mean both those who wear woollen cloaks and those who wear crowns; for I do not regard the colour of the clothes with which they are covered: I do not trust my eyes to tell me what a man is: I have a better and more trustworthy light by which I can distinguish what is true from what is false: let the mind find out what is good for the mind.”

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October 21, 2025Chapter 1: Of A Happy Life
Today, we read chapter 1 of, Of A Happy Life, by Seneca the Younger.
“Now nothing gets us into greater troubles than our subservience to common rumour, and our habit of thinking that those things are best which are most generally received as such, of taking many counterfeits for truly good things, and of living not by reason but by imitation of others.”

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October 17, 2025Chapter 20, The Final Chapter: On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca the Younger
Today, we read chapter 20, the final chapter, of On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca the Younger.
“Some men even prepare for whatever lies after death – a necropolis of tombs, countless public dedications, blazing funeral pyres that can be seen from the stars and ostentatious funerals worthy of demi-gods. But in the end, their funerals were just like their lives – over in a short burst of flames.”

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October 16, 2025Chapter 19: On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca the Younger
Today, we read chapter 19 of On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca the Younger.
“People studying the liberal arts or whose lives are devoted to their careers, are never free to see life for what the truly long, blissful blessing that it is. ”

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October 15, 2025Chapter 18: On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca the Younger
Today, we read chapter 18 of On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca the Younger.
“Our...leader’s efforts to play the mad foreign King almost caused a famine, and what surely would have been the destruction of Rome, following the entire populace’s destruction.”

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October 14, 2025Chapter 17: On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca the Younger
Today, we read chapter 17 of On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca the Younger.
“Why is...happiness tinged with fear? Because the superficial joy of men is not based on something real, but on something as troubled and fleeting as the life they were born into."

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October 09, 2025Chapter 16: On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca the Younger
Today, we read chapter 16 of On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca the Younger.
"This strange perception of the passage of time depending on one’s mood and company has provided material for the poets...They waste the day in anticipation of the night, then spend the night worrying about the coming dawn."

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October 08, 2025Chapter 15: On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca the Younger
Today, we read chapter 15 of On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca the Younger.
“These men will show you the way to immortality, and raise you to heights from which no man can be cast down. This is the only way to extend mortality – truly, by transforming time into immortality. Honors, statues and all other mighty monuments to man’s ambition carved in stone will crumble but the wisdom of the past is indestructible."

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