Desire and Self-Mastery

Plato’s Symposium and Stoic Assent

Angelo Bronzino, Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time (detail - top half), National Gallery London (Public Domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons). Bronzino’s elaborate allegory warns against sexual desire.

How often have you caught yourself glancing at somebody a little too long?

You don’t know this person, down the aisle of the subway from you, or at the other side …