Letters from a Stoic (Seneca)

As Seneca would say to his letters to Lucilius: knowledge shared is learned, here are some simplified pointers from the (partial) reading:

1. Cease to hope and you will cease to fear

2. To be everywhere is to be nowhere

3. I am beginning to be my own friend

4. Live with the people you admire

5. Live in present - do that as you forget the memory of fears and possible fears of future. Memory and foresight can be curse

6. A fool is someone who has nothing but needs everything, a wise man lacks nothing but needs a lot of things - you will always need friends, but if you don't have them you will still be happy

7. A few is enough for me, so is one and so is none

8. You must hate the world or imitate. But right thing is to retire to yourself - neither hate someone for they are not like you or become them because they are many

9. Give up the journey which has no end - if you still long for something more, the journey is not natural - live by mature and not people's opinions

10. A holiday can be celebrated without extravagant festivity

11. Rehearse poverty because only then you can cherish pleasures (This has so much closeness to Taleb's antifragile concept, which I am reading now as well)

12. Anger needs to be controlled because it makes you saner - forget about the cause of it and think of its effect on your personality

13. A good life is available at every corner of the world.

14. Be harsh on yourself to know and rectify what you are doing wrong.