Ryan Holiday

Anyways, grab tickets to that, dailystoiclive.com.

Hope to see you there.

It's no good without this.

Maybe it'll help you get ahead.

Maybe it will help you get rich.

Maybe it will help you get closer to power, help you keep power.

As we see with Seneca, compromises can pay off.

but they come at a high cost.

Seneca was more pragmatic, more ambitious, more willing to turn a blind eye than his fellow Stoics, like Thrasia, who I profile in Lines of the Stoics.

And this made him rich, it made him powerful, but he paid for it with his integrity and his peace.

And in the end, he paid for it with his life.

For what is a man profited, goes one of the most haunting questions in the book of Matthew.

if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul.

We forget this timeless wisdom and these cautionary tales at our peril.

It will not turn out differently for us.

We will not be the exception.

Do not lie to yourself.

Do not trade your soul away.

Because once it's gone, you cannot get it back.

No amount of power or success will be worth it.