Required Daily: Read Tacitus' description of the Death of Seneca and Book One of M. Aurelius' Meditations. Find quotes within those two texts that help explain what Stoicism is all about.
"preferring the interest of any private citizen to his own safety, and he had no natural aptitude for flattery. No one knew this better than Nero, who had oftener experienced Seneca's free spokenness than his servility." This shows that Seneca did not "watch his mouth" as you could say . He said whatever cam to mind. He also was not there to compliment anyone, just there to speak the truth. "Seneca, quite unmoved, asked for tablets on which to inscribe his will, and, on the centurion's refusal, turned to his friends," this shows that he was un moved by many tragedies and that he was not a good decision maker he just turned to his friends so he could please the people around him. "Having spoken these and like words, meant, so to say, for all, he embraced his wife" Although seneca was pretty dang stoic he still showed some emotion and feelings towards his wife.
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