Tag: Cicero
2 posts tagged "Cicero".
Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher (106–43 BC) who translated Greek thought into Latin and, in doing so, transmitted much of classical philosophy to the Western world. Works such as On Duties, On the Good Life, and On Old Age are accessible, practical meditations on virtue, friendship, ageing, and how to live well — kindred in spirit to the Stoicism of Seneca and Marcus Aurelius, though Cicero himself leaned Academic and eclectic. On this blog he stands for the enduring questions of ethics, happiness, and meaning-making, and for the idea that philosophy is training for life rather than abstraction. His prose became the gold standard of Latin style for two millennia.
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Make Frugality Great Again!
The modern practice of frugality has become a funhouse-mirror perversion of the original virtue. What happened?
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Constraints That Liberate
Something I’ve learned the hard way is that you can absolutely have too much of a good thing. Unconstrained freedom is, well... kind of freaky, actually.
