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    156. Everyone who craves externals is a slave to them

    156. Everyone who craves externals is a slave to them

    FromStoic Meditations

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    156. Everyone who craves externals is a slave to them

    FromStoic Meditations

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    2 minutes
    Released:
    Jul 18, 2018
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    Podcast episode

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    Seneca says that if we are going after the satisfaction of lust, greed, ambition, and so forth, we make ourselves slaves to fortune. Not so if we regard what we have as loans from the universe, which the universe can take back at any moment, by any means.

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    Released:
    Jul 18, 2018
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Occasional reflections on the wisdom of Ancient Greek and Roman philosophers with Prof. Massimo Pigliucci. Complete index by author and source at https://massimopigliucci.org/stoic-podcast/. (cover art by Marek Škrabák; original music by Ian Jolin-Rasmussen). Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support