Occasional reflections on the wisdom of Ancient Greek and Roman philosophers with Prof. Massimo Pigliucci. Complete index by author and source at https://massimopigliucci.org/stoic-podcast/. (cover art by Marek Škrabák; original music by Ian Jolin-Rasmussen). Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support
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505. The simplest and bets trick in life: be prepared
Is anyone surprised at being cold in winter? At being sick at sea? Or at being jostled in the street? The mind is strong enough to bear those evils for which it is prepared.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support504. How to keep a philosophical journal
Seneca gives us a rationale and detailed instructions on how too keep a philosophical journal. And modern cognitive science confirms that it works in order to improve self-analysis and let go of negative emotions.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support503. The problem is money
Money is what wearies out the law-courts, sows strife between father and son, concocts poisons, and gives swords to murderers just as to soldiers: it is stained with our blood.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support502. Examine your balance sheet of giving and receiving
Do you ask, what is your greatest fault? It is, that you keep your accounts wrongly: you set a high value upon what you give, and a low one upon what you receive.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support501. Envy is the root of much unhappiness
A person will never be well off to whom it is a torture to see any one better off than themselves. Have I less than I hoped for? Well, perhaps I hoped for more than I ought.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support500. Treat fools like fools, don't get angry with them
It makes no sense to get angry with children or non-human animals, because they can't reason. So why get angry with an adult who has temporarily lost the use of reason?
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support499. The futility of revenge
Revenge takes up much time, and throws itself in the way of many injuries while it is smarting under one. We all retain our anger longer than we feel our hurt.
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Let us be more gentle one to another: we are bad people, living among bad people. There is only one thing which can afford us peace, and that is to agree to forgive one another.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support497. I have entrusted the guidance of my life to reason
Say to fortune: Do what you will, you are too feeble to disturb my serenity: this is forbidden by reason, to whom I have entrusted the guidance of my life: to become angry would do me more harm than your violence can do me.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support496. On magnanimity
Seneca runs us through a long list of reasons why people do us wrong. And then concludes that we should be magnanimous, not vengeful, toward them, in part because they are human beings like us, and like us they make mistakes.
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