Today Seneca repeats a theme he touched on before. He says, "Now nothing gets us into greater troubles than our subservience to common rumor, and our habit of thinking that those things are best which are most generally received as such, of taking many counterfeits for truly good things, and of living not by reason but by imitation of others."
Seneca says "don't just do what everyone else is doing." He wants us to think for ourselves. To choose, using reason and wisdom, which path we should take through life. Otherwise, he says, we are doomed to follow the masses into a short, pointless life.
In the coming weeks and months we'll learn from Seneca how to choose the better life. But for now, let's determine not to just do as the masses do.
See you tomorrow!
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