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Seneca states, "True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not."Such wisdom is characteristic of the stoic philosophers and Seneca particularly. On the Happy Life is one of Seneca's mature essays, written to his brother Gallio in 58 CE, when he was 62 years of age. The main argument is that the pursuit of happiness (understood as eudaimonia) is the pursuit of reason. Or, in more standard Stoic fashion, that only the exercise of reason can lead to a flourishing life. It begins, appropriately enough: "All men, brother Gallio, wish to live happily, but are dull at perceiving exactly what it is that makes life happy."
Genre: Philosophy / Essays (fancy, right?)
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