How to Live a Good a Life - Stoic Wisdom & the Founding Fathers - Highlights - JEFFREY ROSEN
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President & CEO of the National Constitution Center
Author of The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue
Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
That idea of planting seeds for future generations came from the Tusculan
Disputations. There’s something especially empowering about Cicero. And
it's very striking that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams and so many in the
Founding Era viewed this manual about overcoming grief as the definition
for achieving happiness. And I think it's because it's a philosophy of
self-mastery, self-improvement, and self-empowerment.
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