Wealth, Power, Virtue: Why You Can't Have All Three (opens in new tab)

Wealth\. Power\. Virtue\. The Impossible Trinity\. We often view Stoicism through the lens of Marcus Aurelius; the composed Emperor-Sage\. But Aurelius stood on the shoulders of a much more complex predecessor: Lucius Annaeus Seneca\. In this first session of the Aperture Book Club, Cole leads a meditative exploration into Letters from a Stoic\. This isn't just a reading; it is an autopsy of the soul\. Seneca was a man who wrote of the beauty of \"cheerful poverty\" while sitting atop a fortu...