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Good morning, Prokaptan. Welcome back to practical stoicism. I'm your host, Tanner Campbell,

and before we start today, I have a new book coming out, and I'm not talking about the one I'm writing with Kai.

This one is different. If you'd like to be made aware of when it will be available, and that will be very

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keeping further details under wraps until the book is live and available for purchase. That link,

again, is in the show notes. Today is Tuesday, so that means we're diving into one of

Seneca's letters. This one is number 61 and reads as follows. Let us cease to desire that which we

have been desiring. I, at least, am doing this. In my old age, I have ceased to desire what I desired when I was a boy.

To this single end, my days and nights are past. This is my task. This is the object of my thoughts.

To put an end to my chronic ills. I am endeavoring to live every day as if it were a complete life. I do not indeed

snatch it up as if it were my last. I do regard it, however, as if it might be my last.

The present letter is written to you with this in mind, as if death were about to call me away

in the very act of writing it.

I am ready to depart, and I shall enjoy life just because I am not over-anxious as to the future

date of my departure.

Before I became old, I tried to live well.

Now that I am old, I shall try to die well.

But dying means dying gladly. See to it that you never do anything unwillingly.

That which is bound to be a necessity if you rebel is not a necessity if you desire it.

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