✉️Moral Letters to Lucilius

Philosophy is a daily practice for living, not a subject. The letters keep returning to a handful of things: time is the one possession that is truly ours and the one we give away most carelessly; most of what we dread never arrives in the form we dreaded; and a person should be able to look at their own day each evening without flinching.

The first of these I keep as ⚓ Time is the only thing I own, and the reading sits on 06. ⏳ Time, Money & Enough.

• One letter on Sunday mornings, since 26 January, in Gummere's old Loeb translation. Two on some Sundays, none on a few. Letter 71 of 124 by December.
• The progress bar counts letters, not pages. That is how I read it, so that is how I count it.
• He is easier company than Marcus: he is writing to a friend, he shows off, he contradicts his own bank balance. 🏛️ Seneca has the awkward facts.
• Letter 1 did more for my calendar than any app.
• Reading, not finished, and in no hurry.
• Edition: Loeb Classical Library, three volumes, 1917 to 1925. Old enough to quote from freely, which is why the three quote notes exist.
• Letter 1 is 🧩 Stocks and flows before the vocabulary existed: time is a stock with no inflow, and he asks Lucilius to keep an eye on the outflow.