Words of the Ancient Wise: January 4

Wednesday

January 4 - Equanimity

Wisdom shows her strength by her peace amid trouble, like an army encamped in safety in a hostile land.

Seneca's ??, chap, xxi, sec. 4

In the upper air there is neither cloud nor storm, and so in the lofty soul there is always peace.

Seneca's On Anger, book iii, chap, iv, sec. 3

Peace of mind comes by meditating diligently over wise maxims, by doing our duty, and by setting our hearts on what is noble.

Seneca's On Anger, book iii, chap xli, sec. 2

Using this Blog

For this year, we are continuing our move to a new set of quotes, drawn from Frederic Holland's 1879 "The Reign of the Stoics." Unlike the previous volume which drew only on Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus, 'Reign' includes quotes from very nearly every source of Stoic wisdom, arranged topically. The only significant gap is quotes from the works of Musonius Rufus, which I will be adding under the correct topics.

The passages from Words of the Ancient Wise will remain on the blog under the year 2011. I found Words of the Ancient Wise in late 2008, and my wife and I had been reading the passages fairly consistently since. 2011 was the third year of our run through this text. Re-reading the old comment reveals some interesting truths about our lives.

Cheers and Good Reading