255. Ambition is not a Stoic value

from Stoic Meditations · host Massimo Pigliucci

Seneca warns us against ambition, understood not as the will to accomplish things, but as the pursuit of fame, money, and power. Modern politicians should be like Cato the Younger, not Alcibiades.

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