Tag: Pride

• December 21, 2011

  On being in debt up to your ears (but in a good way)

  On Philosophy as the Love of Giving “In gratitude,” the note said. Inside the box was a book by Seneca, Epistles 1-65 of the Loeb Harvard Edition. The old man Seneca is writing to his younger philosophical friend and pupil Lucius, a Roman knight and civil servant. The letters were meant both to educate Lucius in…