258. Try inward happiness

from Stoic Meditations · host Massimo Pigliucci

Seneca explains that if our happiness depends on externals, like fame or money, we are in the hands of Fortuna, who could take those things away at any moment. But if we are happy because we are good, then Fortuna is powerless.

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