Breakfast with Seneca. How to improve the quality of life with the help of the teachings of the Stoics

Stoicism, the most influential philosophical school in the Roman Empire, offers effective ways to strengthen character before the challenges of modern realities. Seneca, who is considered the most talented and humane author in the history of Stoicism, teaches us the need for freedom and goals in life. His most voluminous work, more than a hundred “moral letters to Lucilia” addressed to a close friend, talks about how to learn how to lose the art of friendship and realize its true nature, how to overcome anger, how to meet grief, how to turn failures into development, how To live in society, how to be sincere, how to live, not afraid of death, how to feel love and gratitude completely and how to gain freedom, peace and joy.
In this book, the rights to translation of which were bought by 14 countries, the philosopher David Fiddler analyzes the classic works of Seneca, explaining his ideas, but not simplifying them. Seneca’s wisdom is best enjoyed in the course of a daily ritual like a invigorating cup of coffee, assimilating the truths tested by time about the human soul - as it turned out, over the past two thousand years, it has not changed too much.
“My ideal of a modern stoic sage is a person who transforms fear into prudence, pain in information, errors in the initiative, desire in action. Seneca created a full course of training how to manage his life and use emotions for their intended purpose - thanks to small, but effective tricks. ” (N. N. Taleb)