Status Updates From Ahlak Mektupları

- Look at the number of things we buy because others have bought them, or because they’re in most people’s houses
- There are persons who spread vices, and association with them does a lot of damage. For even if its success is not immediate, it leaves a seed in the mind

- People’s speech matches their lives
- All vices are at odds with nature
- Devotion to what is right is simple, devotion to what is wrong is complex
- It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with little

finished the introduction! mostly just learned some new vocabulary. also sounding like Seneca was a bit of a poser and later in life, a sellout lol. anyways, page numbers will reset and go backwards cause the intro was in roman numerals … and now im starting chapter 1