Ink & Oxygen

Ink & Oxygen

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Ink & Oxygen episodes

  • Chapter 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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  • Chapter 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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  • Chapter 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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  • Chapter 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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  • Chapter 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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  • Chapter 14: On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca the Younger

    Today, we read chapter 14 of On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca the Younger.

    “Because of the efforts of our ancestors we have moved further from darkness into light. We are free to spend time in any era, to roam beyond the narrow confines of the mind, beyond the limits of human capability to explore the vast ocean of time stretched before us."


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    4 min

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A brief, daily reading of a full philosophical text. Each time we finish a book, we begin again with a new book, gaining perspective and wisdom along the way.