Where is your path of self-improvement leading you? Are you confident you're heading towards the highest good? In a letter to Lucilius, known today as Our mind’s godlike potential, Seneca wrote, “There is but one good, and that is both the cause and the mainstay of happiness: trust in oneself.”
According to Seneca, "Complete virtue consists of the evenness and steadiness of a life in harmony with itself through all events, which cannot come about unless one has the knowledge and skill of discerning things human and divine. This is the highest good." [...]
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