Philosophical Dictionary
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Seneca Meme: Was Seneca a Hypocrite About Voluntary Discomfort?
By Markus Uehleke
The Seneca meme shows a man practising voluntary discomfort, then sleeping on a pile of cash. An accuser in Tacitus put Seneca’s fortune at 300 million sesterces, and Seneca himself admitted the gap between his words and his life. Nietzsche accused them of a fraud of words. Does any of that make Seneca wrong?