Vision

  TRUE HAPPINESS IS TO REST SATISFIED WITH WHAT WE HAVE Tilicius Annagus Seneca was a man of many talents. He was a La poet, dramatist, orator, statesman, and one of the greatest of the Stoic philosophers. He was also one of the best-read men in Rome. At the moment he was thoroughly enjoying the fables of a Greek slave named Aesop who was said to have lived at the court of Croesus six centuries ago.  They were quaint little stories, about animals mostly—but each with a moral truth concealed in its penetrating nonsense. A pity more people couldn't read, he thought. There were some good lessons to be learned here. Suddenly his attention was caught by a single phrase: "Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything." Why that was almost exactly what he had written yesterday in his essay on happiness! He got it out and found the sentence: A wise man is a content with his lot, whatever it be. Without realizing it, he had paraphrased the Greek storyteller! But many...