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Day 96/365: Seneca on luxury
Logan
April 06, 2025
Welcome to The Stoic Ledger, a daily money meditation from one of the Stoic sages.
96/365: Seneca on luxury
“The founder of the universe, who assigned to us the laws of life, provided that we should live well, but not in luxury. Everything needed for our well-being is right before us, whereas what luxury requires is gathered by many miseries and anxieties. Let us use this gift of nature and count it among the greatest things.” – Seneca
Live well, but not in luxury.
And to live well, we don’t need to go beyond what’s right in front of us, what we have.
To get more is to sign a contract with misery and anxiety, perpetually unfilled.
This realization is greater than anything because it sets us on the path of contentment or discontentment. Right now, we have the choice to decide we are living well. To see what we don’t have as what we want is playing whack-a-mole, wasting finite energy swinging at those flighty material moles.
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