Required Reading: Letter 4: On The Terrors Of Death “No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it…” This will be a deeply personal essay; one in which the thought of it brings back intense memory of an acute and heightened feeling; one not of fear but anxiety. It happened December 21st … Read more

Required Reading: Letter 3: On True And False Friendship “But if you consider any man a friend whom you do not trust as you trust yourself, you are mightily mistaken and you do not sufficiently understand what true friendship means.” Let me begin this essay by asking you how many friends do you have? Do you have … Read more

Required Reading: Letter 2: On Discursiveness In Reading “The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man’s ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.” Seneca’s second letter to Lucilius is one so full of lessons that every sentence, every paragraph is worth written in BOLD! One cannot even begin to … Read more

Required Reading: Letter 1: On Saving Time In Seneca’s first letter to Lucilius, he cautions the slightly younger about the importance of saving his time. He states, “Time is the one loan which a grateful recipient cannot repay.” And how so true is that statement! Every second, minute, hour, day, month, year, is given to us freely … Read more