Letters of a Stoic

Seneca to Lucilius: 85, that we can practice virtue under all circumstances

Everyone is a good pilot when the sea is calm, but will you be able to withstand the storm?

the Philippeion at Olympia, photo by the Author

One of the great rivalries of ancient Greco-Roman philosophy was that between the Stoics and the Aristotelians, or Peripatetics…