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Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Plato

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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The Story of the Charioteer

The story of the laontis is about internal strife in a human being. Author plato says that even if their best self wants to do something, they are always going to feel tensions. And he had this awesome metaphor that involved a charioteer driving a chariot with two horses. In another one of his books, a book called the pedris, he gives an analogy that i think is even more vivid....

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