878. Damocles' sword and the nature of happiness

from Stoic Meditations · host Massimo Pigliucci

Cicero tells the famous story of Dionysius, the tyrant of Syracuse, and one of his flatterers, Damocles, who learns the hard way that what may look like a happy life is actually nothing of the sort.

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