Back in 2012 the great director Quentin Tarantino released the movie Django Unchained starring Jamie Foxx.  The movie details how with the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave Django sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi planta...

In reading this letter you would think that if Lucilius put his book on Amazon today Seneca would have given it a five star rating. Seneca raves at the book and the message it conveys. If people wanted to write a book in the past they would have had to...

Sophistry is defined as he use of fallacious or false arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving. Sophism centuries ago meant making good arguments. As time has gone on the definition has gotten much worse.

Pedigree is defined as the recorded ancestry, especially upper-class ancestry, of a person or family. Years ago the British Army maintained a practice called the purchase of commissions. The purchase of officer commissions was the paying of money to be...

When I read this letter, it reminds me of the book Ego Is The Enemy by Ryan Holiday. As we gain fame, reputation and renown we must guard against this getting the best of us. We also run the risk of losing a bit of ourselves.

Shortly before the airing of this podcast episode came out an interesting story was in the news. The former video and rental giant Blockbuster had just recently closed two of it’s last three stores both in Alaska. One final store remains in Oregon.

There is a branch of Stoicism called Physics that involved concepts of Cosmology and Theology.  Stoics were considered to be Pangeists which followed  a doctrine that identifies God with the universe, or regards the universe as a manifestation of God.

Winston Churchill is quoted as saying “A good speech should be like a woman’s skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.” In this letter Seneca points out the importance in delivering a speech or a discourse so that th...

Aspirations are defined as a hope or ambition of achieving something. Seneca writes in his letter that this can be a good thing. “But happy is the man who has given it this impulse toward better things! He will place himself beyond the jurisdiction of ...

Did you ever have a good conversation over a cup of coffee with someone? When you see the word quiet in the description of this letter, it reminds me about not being silent  but about filtering out unwanted noise. Seneca writes letters.