Making the Most of Your Emotional Life With Seneca

Bridle Your Feelings to Control Your Destiny

Jan 01, 2025

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Vincent Van Gogh, Sorrowing Old Man (At Eternity’s Gate) (detail), 1890. (Public Domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons)

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Too often we hear that Stoicism is opposed to feeling emotion. What nonsense. Trying to live without emotions is like trying to live without a head. Emotions are fundamental to reason, and not diametrically opposed as is ofte…

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