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#152: On Philosophy and Riches

The Tim Ferriss Show

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On Philosophy and Riches by Seneca

Letter 17, on philosophy and riches. Cast away everything of that sort. If any bond holds you back, untie it or sever it. Study cannot be helpful unless you take pains to live simply. And living simply is voluntary poverty. When hastening after wisdom, we must endure even hunger. Men have endured hunger when their towns were besieged. Armies have lived on roots and resisted hunger by means of food. Too revolting to mention all this, they have suffered to gain a kingdom. For if anything forbids you to live nobly, nothing forbids you to die nobly. There is no reason why poverty should call us away from philo ophy. No nor even actual want

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