"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body." -Seneca In essence, what Seneca tells us is that a life of leisure and ease leaves us weaker than one of challenge and struggle. We learn m...
"Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers." -Marcus Aurelius Marcus Aurelius poses the notion that those who spend more time learning through books than...
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things." -Epictetus Everyone seeks improvement in some form. Whether in wealth, knowledge, status, happin...