Seneca was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, and this book is about his philosophy According to Socrates, gym is to keep your body healthy, and philosophy is to care for the soul “What I also discovered in Seneca’s writings is that nothing significant has changed in human nature over the last two thousand years, which made everything he had to say contemporary. Vanity, greed, ambition, pursuit of luxury, and runaway consumerism—aspects of Rome’s elite, decadent society that Seneca described in detail—are all still very much with us.” This is one reason why I read many old books and watched many old movies “For the Stoics, the only things fully under our control are our inner powers of judgment, opinion, and decision making, our will, and how we interpret the things we experience.” 这就是所谓的free will “When something negative happens, or when we are struck by adversity, we shouldn’t be surprised by it, but see it as an opportunity to create a better situation.” 读这本书的时候恰逢我走出一个人生低谷,然后发现自己走...