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Letters from a Stoic (Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium)
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How can I apply this idea: Letters II and III: scattered reading and scattered trust both fail for the same reason, depth requires narrowing down to what you can actually hold, not gathering everything you might one day need?
How can I apply this idea: Letters V and VI: real inward change should not announce itself through beards, rags, or self-advertisement, and Seneca's proof that his own change is real is Hecato's line, 'What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend.'?
How can I apply this idea: Letters VII and VIII: crowds are contagious, Seneca describes coming home from a lunchtime gladiator show crueler than he left, and concludes that his own retreat from public life is not idleness but the only way to actually be useful to more people?
