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Had a lot of wondering thoughts today and wasn’t paying attention too much but I locked in towards the end. Seneca at first continued talking about literature. He then switched over to living vs not living in accordance to nature. Towards the end, he began talking about pleasures and virtue. Finished the letters and all in all was good.

Had more wondering thoughts today than yesterday but still was able to understand everything. Seneca continued talked about taking action and even said himself to practice what you preach. But he said practice the simple things, not the far-fetched expressions. He also talked about literature and how you can tell a person/society based on their literary level.

Good so far. Was pretty locked in again. Had a few wondering thoughts, especially towards the end. But Seneca brought up some interesting points talking about accepting fate and taking action. He specifically talked about when students would learn new things. The only way for the info to truly reach them and for them to conceptualize it would be to implement into their lives. I thought this was good.

Very good read today. Understood most, had some issues on a page or two. But Seneca talked about character and confidence, giving examples of Socrates, Cato, and others. He talked about traveling and how you need to let go, traveling won’t fix your issues, only you will. Seneca also talked at the end about how to get people to not hate you. Pulled some great info today and good quotes and passages

Decent read. The first half of today I was in my head and was reading lines but thinking of other things. Towards the end, I got in a flow state and Seneca talked about his love and his wife’s love and how it’s selfish to die when you want, but you should hold out to the very end. He talked about leaving the city to make his illness better, he also talked about traveling and blows worse than death

Decent. Today I felt like I was reading lines, reading to read. I didn’t feel like I understood really anything. I know Seneca argued against Posidonus again and his philosophy but that’s about it.

Decent. Was a hard read and procrastinated a lot before reading. Talked about posidonus and his thoughts of the wise man and how Seneca didn’t like them. He talked about the wise man and craftsman ship and finished up his thoughts on Liberal Studies.

Continued talking about way of life but soon switched over to liberal studies, talking about the negatives and the positives. The reading wasn’t hard, but there were a few words or sentences that didn’t make sense. My biggest issue was having my mind wonder off to something else when reading.

Had decent difficulty again when reading and messed up some words and sentences. Seneca talked about men being drunk, his daily life, and also talked about what life was like back then and talked about how people hate on it when that’s all they had compared to now.

Read was a bit difficult and I got lost in thought a decent amount. I was also skipping words here and there and not fully reading sentences but Seneca talked about death and how one should go through pain.