"Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one: men learn as they teach." Seneca, Letters from a Stoic, Letter VII

"There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with." Seneca, Letters from a Stoic, Letter VI

Seneca. Letters from a Stoic. Penguin Classics. 1969, reprinted 2004. Selected and Translated with an Introduction by Robin Campbell.

"Seneca, all the same, may well be history's most notable example of a man who failed to live up to his principles."

"Limiting one's desire actually helps to cure one of fear." Seneca, Letters from a Stoic, Letter V

"After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge." Seneca, Letters from a Stoic, Letter III

"To be everywhere is to be nowhere." Seneca, Letters from a Stoic, Letter II

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I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!

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