How Seneca Can Save Your Life — 24 Stoic Lessons for Modern Living

#12. No one ever became wise by chance

Image: The Death of Seneca by Peter Paul Rubens (c. 1615)

The wisest students of human nature in ancient times, and perhaps of all time, were known as the Stoics, writes Ward Farnsworth (author of The Practicing Stoic). But what can Seneca, a Stoic philosopher from two thousand years ago, teach us about modern living? As it turns out — much of…