Seneca – Cameron's Blog https://cameronblewett.blog yep. it's another place for cameron to rant... Sun, 10 Nov 2019 21:59:43 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://cameronblewett.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/camerons-rants-150x150.png Seneca – Cameron's Blog https://cameronblewett.blog 32 32 Don’t Study To Simply Make Money https://cameronblewett.blog/dont-study-to-simply-make-money/ https://cameronblewett.blog/dont-study-to-simply-make-money/#respond Sun, 10 Nov 2019 22:30:51 +0000 https://cameronblewett.blog/?p=8200&preview=true&preview_id=8200 You want to know my attitude towards liberal studies. Well, I have no respect for any study whatsoever if its end is the making of money. Such studies are to me unworthy ones. They involve the putting out of skills to hire, and are only of value in so fas as they may develop the ... Read more

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]]> https://cameronblewett.blog/dont-study-to-simply-make-money/feed/ 0 Refrain From Following Those Who Crave Attention https://cameronblewett.blog/refrain-from-following-those-who-crave-attention/ https://cameronblewett.blog/refrain-from-following-those-who-crave-attention/#respond Sun, 03 Mar 2019 23:30:42 +0000 https://cameronblewett.blog/?p=7031 Let me give you, though, this one piece of advice: refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement, by doing certain things which are calculated to give rise to comment on your appearance or way of living generally.– Seneca

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]]> https://cameronblewett.blog/refrain-from-following-those-who-crave-attention/feed/ 0 What Would They Do? https://cameronblewett.blog/what-would-they-do/ https://cameronblewett.blog/what-would-they-do/#respond Sun, 17 Feb 2019 23:39:35 +0000 https://cameronblewett.blog/?p=6957 “We need to set our affections on some good man and keep him constantly before our eyes, so that we may live as if he were watching us and do everything as if he saw what we were doing.”
> This, my dear Lucilius, is Epicurus’ advice, and in giving it he has given us a guardian and a moral tutor – and not without reason, either: misdeeds are greatly diminished if a witness is always standing near intending doers.
– Seneca

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]]> https://cameronblewett.blog/what-would-they-do/feed/ 0 What’s The Worst That Could Happen? https://cameronblewett.blog/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen/ https://cameronblewett.blog/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen/#respond Fri, 04 Jan 2019 23:45:41 +0000 https://cameronblewett.blog/?p=6733 Isn’t it time that we stopped worry about the “what ifs”, planned for what could’s and did it anyway?

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