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Welcome to Sundays with Seneca on the Perennial Meditations podcast. Join the search for ancient lessons on the art of living from the writings and Stoic philosophy of Lucius Annaeus Seneca.

In a letter known today as On Meeting Death Cheerfully, Seneca wrote, "Let us cease to desire that which we have been desiring. I, at least, am doing this: in my old age, I have ceased to desire what I desired when a boy. To this single end, my days and my nights are passed; this is my task, this the object of my thoughts—to put an end to my chronic ills. I am endeavoring to live every day as if it were a complete life. I do not indeed snatch it up as if it were my last; I do regard it, however, as if it might even be my last." [...]

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