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Hey there for Capton. Welcome back to practical stoicism. As always, I'm your host, Tanner Campbell, and let's get started. We've got Seneca's letters. It's a Tuesday, a little bit late, playing catch-up from the computer crash and getting everything reset up and configured. We should be publishing episodes for the rest of this week,

kind of more like in the evening of the day you usually expect them as we try to get back ahead by a week.

So bear with us. But by next week, you should see things releasing in the morning, in the early morning, my time anyway, 3 a.m. U.S. Mountain Time, as you have become accustomed to.

We just need to

rebuild the buffer and get back there. So bear with me this week. Next week, it'll be back to normal.

This week's letter is letter number 25, and it is on Reformation. So let's go ahead and jump right

into it. With regard to those two friends of ours, we must

proceed along different lines. The faults of the one are to be corrected. The others are to be

crushed out. I shall take every liberty, for I do not love this one if I am unwilling to hurt

his feelings. What, you say? Do you expect to keep a

40-year-old ward under your tutelage? Consider his age. How hardened it is now, and past handling.

Such a man cannot be reshaped, only young minds are moldable. I do not know whether I shall make

progress, but I should prefer to lack success

rather than to lack faith. You need not despair of curing sick men, even when the disease is

chronic. If only you hold out against excess and force them to do and submit to many things

against their will. As regards our other friend, I am not sufficiently

confident either, except for the fact that he still has some sense of shame, enough to blush for his

sins. This modesty should be fostered. So long as it endures in his soul, there is some room

for hope. But as for this veteran of yours, I think we should deal more

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