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Seneca, in his 'Letters', advocates for simple living, but not at the expense of being crude. He advises that self-discipline should be rigorous, but not abusive, and that people should push themselves to be better but not to the point of harming themselves.
Seneca says, Philosophy calls for simple living but not penance.
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Seneca, in his 'Letters', advocates for simple living, but not at the expense of being crude. He advises that self-discipline should be rigorous, but not abusive, and that people should push themselves to be better but not to the point of harming themselves.
Seneca says, Philosophy calls for simple living but not penance.
There's a strictness to Stoicism, treating the body rigorously as Seneca said, but he meant that in terms of like pushing yourself on a walk or a run, trying to lift something heavy, trying to do a little bit more than you can. He wasn't saying you drive yourself into the dirt, he wasn't saying you, you know, you whip yourself or you pinch yourself or you hit yourself or you talk rudely or meanly to yourself because you're not a bad person and you don't deserve that.