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Do good to feel good
Seneca said that each person presents us an opportunity to do kindness. They also, therefore, present us an opportunity to find happiness. Because, he wrote, “a good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.”
Seneca said that each person presents us an opportunity to do kindness. They also, therefore, present us an opportunity to find happiness. Because, he wrote, “a good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.”
"I have no right to do myself an injury. Have I ever injured anyone else if I could avoid it?" —Marcus Aurelius
Three of Stoicism's most well-known practitioners ranged widely in terms of where they stood in society. Marcus Aurelius, the emperor of the Roman Empire; Seneca, who was an adviser to an emperor; and Epictetus, born as a slave.