A stoic but dying Seneca, who was sentenced to death by his former pupil, Roman emperor Nero

Watch the first video of a six part series: Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness (Part 1) – Socrates

Continuing onto the third part of six posts featuring a series of documentaries written and presented by popular British philosopher Alain de Botton.

This 6 part series is an entertaining, practical and psychobabble-free self-help course for the philosophically minded.

Here, de Botton, brings us six thinkers who have influenced history, and their ideas about the pursuit of the happy life. Here we have then:

• Socrates
• Epicurus
• Seneca
• Michel de Montaigne
• Arthur Schopenhauer
• Friedrich Nietzsche

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Here I bring you once again 3 of the greatest Stoic philosophers of ancient times.

Watch the following  video of wise quotations from my personal favourites, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Seneca:

The weekend is almost over and I have so little time to do anything, but I do have the time to share with you some ancient wisdom from the Roman stoic, Seneca.

The following video is a transcript from the book ‘The Epistles of Lucius Annaeus Seneca V1‘ that contains various letters from Seneca advising his friend Lucilius on the stoic way of living.

The letter in question, ‘On Saving Time’ is relevant to my recent posts, “How to Manage your Time doing the Important things you Love”, and the practical wisdom offered by Seneca reinforces my view that time is the most precious thing we have in our relatively short lifetimes.