Living to 100 may seem like a long time, but it is possible that people will live much longer than that. Studies have shown that the Seventh-day Adventists, whose church promotes behaviors that promote healthy aging, have a well-documented average life expectancy of 60 years and a life expectancy of 80 years. Some studies show that higher life expectancy is due to common lifestyle factors, including avoiding risk factors such as smoking and alcohol. [Sources: 16, 17, 18]
Some people say that the 80 / 20 rule can be maintained, which will help build habits that can be maintained for a long, healthy life. Older adults are healthier in later years, but it doesn't amount to lifestyle choices, "said Dr. Michael J. Ikigai, an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. So next time you don't want to live to 100, just say no and follow IkIGai for suggestions that will help you live the healthiest and happiest life possible. For more information on how to live longer, visit the Seventh Day Adventist Church website. [Sources: 1, 6, 8, 9]
To pave the way to a longer life, look at these seven unexpected things that will extend your life span. Below you will learn how to live a long life that is happy, healthy and fulfilling for you. Let us end with a song about how we live a long life sung to the author while she remains in the village that holds the Guinness World Record for longevity. [Sources: 8, 14, 19]
We may sometimes take our friends and family for granted, but the truth is that our grandparents and parents did not live long lives. If you think that you can have a long, healthy life, then you don't. When it comes to staying healthy, most people have the ability to live as long and as fulfilling as possible. [Sources: 3, 15, 18]
Research published in the Lancet reveals what it takes to live longer and what it takes to lead a happier life. Research has shown that it takes more time, more energy, less stress and less anxiety to live a long life, and that people who believe that their lives have more meaning behave more purposefully. If you don't have a clear sense of what you mean by "life," then you're probably not living it right. [Sources: 3, 5]
You can improve your health by living a certain lifestyle and making sure you don't kill any big killers later in life. If you care about maintaining health, give yourself an element of a life expectancy calculator. [Sources: 6, 13]
Adopting a healthy lifestyle and choosing the right type of environment can have an impact on both wellbeing and longevity. It is common sense to live a long life without illness, and it is never too late to make changes. Below we have compiled a list of healthy habits to embrace, some of the easier ways to live a healthy lifestyle, and others that are just fun. One of these is limiting alcohol consumption, but what can be done to lead a longer, healthier life? [Sources: 1, 9, 11, 18]
Summer Yule, MS, RDN, said: "Reducing and quitting smoking is an excellent way to lead a healthy life. [Sources: 1]
The public receives a wealth of information about health behaviours and lifestyle choices that will help you stay healthy in later years. I think a better proposal would be lunch, which other studies have linked to malnutrition and prolonging life expectancy. If most people have a reasonable life expectancy by the end of it, this would be a good way to increase life expectancy by years, not only in terms of health, but also in terms of your body's overall health. Extend life expectancy - life expectancy is a worthwhile goal, if you also improve your quality of life and health. [Sources: 0, 4, 7, 18]
To be someone obsessed with slowing down the aging process and living longer, I recently read a book called "How to Live a Long Life" by a dog who leads a happy, healthy life for as long as possible. The life expectancy of dogs is not a fun topic, but there are steps you can take if you want to remain independent and live longer in later life. Healthy ageing for a long life is, for example, one of the most important aspects of a healthy, long-term life. [Sources: 4, 8, 12]
Therefore, it is important to understand how long participants, especially young people, want to live, whether they want a shorter or longer life than they live, and why they (and others) want to live it - and whether they are right. The average person of each participant's age and gender will live for the country and gender, but the difference between what the average cohort member expects and what he or she personally expects is significant. On average, participants wanted to live longer than they expected or believed that an average of their cohort members would have lived. How long they wanted to live can be a good indicator of why some younger people want to live longer or not, compared to the way they expect or believe that the average person will live in their country or gender. Science should continue to try to increase life expectancy, not only in the United States, but also in other countries. [Sources: 2, 10]
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6 Things You’re Doing That You’ll Seriously Regret In 10 Years
Sure, they seem like no big deal now. But be careful of these key areas of future regret.
By Gwen Moran, contributor to Fast Company’s Leadership channel
Scrolling through my social media feed, I noticed a college friend’s photograph of his son’s dormitory. My friend and I had been thick as thieves during our undergraduate years, and now his son was leaving home, and roughly the age his father was when he and I first met.
Suddenly, I was hit with a wave of regret.
We hadn’t seen each other in years, even though we live roughly an hour apart. I don’t really know his children well, and he doesn’t know mine. Over the years, when one of us reached out to the other, we were always busy with work, soccer practices, music lessons, or other commitments. “Next time for sure,” we’d say as we postponed. At one time in our lives, I thought we’d be close pals forever and our children would carry on the next generation of our friendship. It didn’t work out that way.
With a full roster of work, family, friends, and other obligations — not to mention trying to make time to stay healthy and have an occasional moment or two alone — it can be tough to fit in all the things we want and need to do. As we try to keep all of those commitments, it’s not uncommon to form habits and take shortcuts that let us fit more into the day. We may stay at our desks longer, forego vacations, or crowd out time for family and friends.
A recent survey by Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America found that roughly one-third (32%) of Americans regret major choices in their lives.
But what kind of consequences do those decisions have in the long run? Possibly big ones, experts say. Here are some key things you may be doing now that you’ll likely regret in a decade or more.
GIVING UP ON ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS
Many people have relationship regrets, whether they’re related to friends or romantic partners, says Gail Saltz, MD, an associate professor of psychiatry at the New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill-Cornell School of Medicine. The relationship road not taken is a big source of regret among people she sees. Career-focused romantic partners may find themselves either living in different areas or faced with one partner making a sacrifice to be with the other.
“Given the day and age we’re living in now, many, many people feel they shouldn’t have to do that for someone else, and so they don’t,” she says. Later, they may have the great career, but regret that they didn’t try harder to make the relationship work, she says.
NEGLECTING FRIENDSHIPS
While lost friendships are often considered unimportant compared to romantic partners, their loss can be just as painful and regrettable, says Neal Roese, PhD, a professor of marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and author of If Only: How to Turn Regret Into Opportunity.
When you put in too many hours at work and let those friendships drift away, you’re setting yourself up for regret. Roese has coauthored several studies on regrets and their causes and says that not making time to maintain friendships is a big one, especially because it can be harder to make new deep friendships later in life. This is especially true at work, where friendships with colleagues can boost both happiness and productivity.
BEING SEDENTARY
It’s easy to end up sitting at your desk all day or blow off working out because you’re tired when you get home. However, failing to make time for regular exercise can affect everything from your overall health to your creativity. As we get older, establishing a regular exercise habit is even more important.
A March 2016 study in the online issue of Neurology found that regular exercise can slow brain aging by as much as 10 years. Saltz says that many people know better, but don’t heed the potential consequences of their actions when they’re younger. “It’s a firmly rooted early belief that I’m invincible, or I’ll be young forever, or these issues of later just don’t pertain to me,” she says.
PUTTING OFF A HEALTH HISTORY
Similarly, Saltz says compiling a routine health history — including check-ups and routine testing such as blood pressure, cholesterol, and others — is important in the long run. If you’re not compiling a health history and, when possible, sharing health concerns and history with a medical professional, you risk missing important warning signs. Many treatments are time-limited, and early detection can make a big difference in outcomes, she says.
IGNORING STRESS MANAGEMENT
Living in a chronic state of being overscheduled and under a variety of pressures can lead to a number of stress-related behaviors and problems, says stress expert Mary Wingo, PhD, author of The Human Stress Response: The Biological Origins and Responses to Human Stress.
There’s even evidence that prolonged stress can predispose people to mental illness. Wingo says it’s important to find ways to mitigate that stress before it causes damage.
“Sit down — by yourself, with a therapist, self-help group, etc. — and list every single stressor,” Wingo advises. Then make a conscious effort, the way you would if you were going on a diet or quitting smoking, to eliminate what stressors you can, she says. Adopt stress-relieving habits like meditation, exercise, and other practices that are helpful to relieve stress.
LETTING FEAR DRIVE DECISIONS
Whether it’s fear of not making enough money, disapproval from others, or other concerns, many people let fear rule when it comes to making decisions, which is a common source of regret, says Hal Shorey, PhD, associate professor in the Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology at Widener University.
Instead of taking healthy risks and following their passions or intuition, some people worry that they won’t meet certain standards they, or others, have for themselves and instead make choices that aren’t really right for them. Such fear-based decision making can also lead to ethical issues, which Shorey has seen with his students:
My first management job, and this happens with a lot of my grads, they’re making good money for the first time in their lives, and they think to themselves, “Oh my goodness, I’ve arrived.” Then they’ll be asked to do things professionally that they may think are unethical, or they might be asked to do things professionally that go against their own knowledge of leadership and the right way to do things. Because they’re too concerned about losing the job, they go along with it and conform.
Shorey says that almost inevitably leads to regret.
Of course, it’s not possible to map out a strategy for a regret-free life, and some regrets are bigger than others. However, Roese says that paying attention to the areas where research shows us most people have regrets can help us be more mindful about our choices.
Looking for ways to “have your cake and eat it, too” can help. Nurture friendships at work. Make time for important people in your life. Take care of your health. Being aware of your own values system and what matters to you can also help you make more regret-free decisions, he says.
Says Roese:
Some regrets we just get over. We rationalize or explain them away. But other things linger. I think that the key question that a lot of people like to talk about these days is, let’s say you’ve reached the end of your life, or maybe you’re on your deathbed. What are your deathbed regrets? If you look at these, there might be a recipe for how better to live your life.
Read this story at Fast Company.
Posted with BlogsySaturday, 30 July 2016
Denzel Washington Tells Grads, 'Just Because You're Doing A Lot More, Doesn't Mean You're Getting A Lot More Done'
[1] Put God first in [everything that you do]: "Everything that I have is by the grace of God, understand that. It's a gift. [1.7 GPA, flunking out of college... sitting in my mother’s beauty parlor, and I was looking in the mirror and I see behind me this woman under the dryer, and every time she’d look up, . . . she was looking me in the eye. She said, ‘Somebody get me a pen, I have a prophesy,’ . . . this was on March 27, 1975. ‘Boy you’re going to travel the world and speak to billions of people’ . . . the most important thing is what she said, ‘stick with God’,] I didn't always stick with Him, but He stuck with me."
[2] Fail big: "[It’s a frightening world out there . . . it’s a mean world out there. You only live once. Do what you feel passionate about, take chances professionally. IQ test, 9 dots, 5 lines all connecting . . . Don’t be afraid to go outside the box. Don’t be afraid to think outside the box.] Don't be afraid to fail big, to dream big, but remember, dreams without goals, are just dreams. And they ultimately fuel disappointment. [So have dreams, but have goals, life goals, yearly goals, monthly goals, daily goals.] I try to give myself a goal every day, sometimes it's just not to curse somebody out. [Simple goals but have goals. And understand to achieve these goals you must apply discipline and consistency . . . every day. You have to work at it every day, you have to plan every day. People say, ‘You don’t plan to fail, you fail to plan.’ Hard work works. Working really hard is what successful people do. And in this text, tweet, twerk world that you've grown up in, remember that just because you're doing a lot more, doesn't mean you're getting a lot more done. Don’t confuse movement with progress . . . So continue to strive, continue to have goals, continue to progress.]"
[3] You'll never see a U-Haul behind a hearse: "I don't care how much money you make, you can't take it with you. [The Egyptian’s tried it. They got robbed. And i]t's not how much you have, it's what you do with [what you have] We all have different talents . . . the most selfish thing you can do in this world is help someone else. Why is this selfish? Because the gratification that comes to you (feels good). Not the . . . big house . . . That’s where the joy is, in helping others, that’s where the success is.]"
[4] [I pray that you put your slippers way under the bed tonight, so that when you wake in the morning you have to get on your knees to reach them.] While you're on your knees in the morning, say thank you: "[Say thank you for GRACE. Thank you for MERCY. Thank you for UNDERSTANDING. Thank you for WISDOM. Thank you for PARENTS. Thank you for LOVE. Thank you for KINDNESS. Thank you for HUMILITY. Thank you for PEACE. Thank you for PROSPERITY.] Say [THANK YOU] in advance for what is already yours. ... True desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand [to indicate] that it's [ ] yours [already… True desire in the heart, that itch that you have, whatever it is that you want to do, that thing that you want to do to help others, to grow and to make money. That desire, that itch is God’s proof to you. Sent beforehand to indicate that that’s yours. And anything that you want GOOD, you can have. So claim it, work hard to get it.] When you get it, reach back, pull someone else up. Each one, teach one. Don't just aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference."
"[Thank you.]"
Sunday, 26 June 2016
5 rituals that will help your brain stay young | By World Economics Forum
Thanks to improvements in medicine, more of us are living longer. That means we have a heightened investment in making sure our brains stay in shape as we age, too. While an increased life expectancy will not necessarily lead to a higher incidence of cognitive disorders, Alzheimer’s alone is expected to affect over seven million American seniors by 2025.
Lucky for us, advanced technologies have enabled researchers to understand how the brain works, what it responds to, and even how to retrain it. For instance, we know our brains prefer foods with high levels of antioxidants, including blueberries, kale, and nuts. We know that a Mediterranean diet, which is largely plant-based and rich in whole grain, fish, fruits, and red wine, can lead to higher brain functions. And we know that smiling can retrain our brains to look for positive possibilities rather than negative ones
Whether you’re 25 or 65, consider adopting these five simple rituals that cognitive scientists say can help your brain grow new cells, form new neural pathways, improve cognition, and keep your outlook positive and sharp.
1. Congratulate yourself for small wins
The frequency of success matters more than the size of success, so don’t wait until the big wins to congratulate yourself, says B.J. Fogg, director of the Persuasive Tech Lab at Stanford University. Instead, come up with daily celebrations for yourself; your brain doesn’t know the difference between progress and perceived progress.
Both progress and setbacks are said to greatly influence our emotions. So the earlier in the day you can feel successful, the better—feelings of excitement help fuel behaviors that will set you up for successes. For instance, a productive morning routine can be used to motivate you through the rest of the day. We feel happier and encouraged as our energy levels increase, and feel anxiety or even depression as our energy levels go down.
2. Keep your body active
According to neurologist Etienne van der Walt, keeping active is one of the best ways to improve brain health. As he told Quartz earlier this year, “Specific forms of exercises have been shown to be very beneficial for … brain growth.”
Simply speaking, when we exercise, our heart rate increases, oxygen is pumped to the brain at a much faster rate, and new brain cells develop more quickly. The more brain cells we create, the easier it is for cells to communicate with one another, developing new neural pathways. Ultimately, our brains become more efficient and plastic, which means better cognitive performance.
A 2014 study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found that children who regularly exercised had higher “attentional inhibition,” defined by The New York Times as “the ability to block out irrelevant information and concentrate on the task at hand.” The Times article also noted that study participants ended the with “heightened abilities to toggle between cognitive tasks.” It doesn’t even take that much sweat to keep your brain in good shape.
It doesn’t even take that much sweat to keep your brain in good shape. A study conductedby the department of exercise science at the University of Georgia in 2003 found that an exercise bout of just 20 minutes is enough to change the brain’s information processing and memory functions.
Bottom line: however you decide to keep active, just keep moving.
3. Stretch your brain muscles
Like other muscles in your body, if you don’t use the brain, you’ll eventually lose it. This means it’s crucial to exercise your brain and keep it stimulated.
Tara Swart, a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, notes that it’s especially important to target areas of your brain that you use less frequently. Good suggestions for stretching your brain muscles include learning to speak a new language, learning to play a new instrument, or even learning to juggle.
To enhance his own cognitive prowess, author James Altucher tries to come up with new ideas every day. He writes about his daily system:
Take a waiter’s pad. Go to a local cafe. Maybe read an inspirational book for 10 to 20 minutes. Then start writing down ideas. The key here is, write 10 ideas … a waiter’s pad is too small to write a whole novel or even a paragraph. In fact, it’s specifically made to make a list. And that’s all you want, a list of ideas.
Mid-way through the exercise, Altucher says his brain will actually start to “hurt.” Whether he ends up using the ideas or throwing them away is not the point. But it is important to vary your routine. Harvard psychologist Shelley H. Carson, author of Your Creative Brain, also believes that mixing things up and even allowing yourself to become distracted can be an important cognitive tool.
4. Sit upright
Mothers everywhere were really onto something when they instructed their children to sit up straight. Not only is an upright position found to increase energy levels and enhance our overall mood, it’s also been shown to increase our confidence, as in this 2013 preliminary researchconducted by Harvard Business professor Amy Cuddy and her colleague, Maarten W. Bos.
Positioning yourself in a powerless, crouched position can make your brain more predisposed towards hopelessness. In the study, the researchers found that people who sit in collapsed positions—usually adopted to look at small wireless devices like smartphones and tablets—were less likely to stand up for themselves. Participants with bad posture were also the slowest to ask if they could leave when the experiment had been declared over. On the other hand, participants who were randomly assigned larger devices, like laptops and desktops, were more likely to sit upright and be assertive in asking if they could leave.
From a purely cognitive perspective, positioning yourself in a powerless, crouched position can make your brain more predisposed towards hopelessness, as well as more likely to recall depressive memories and thoughts. Researchers say this phenomenon is ingrained in our biology and traces back to how body language is “closely tied to dominance across the animal kingdom,” as Cuddy writes in her new book, Presence.
So what’s the best way to ensure you feel powerful in both body and mind? Erik Peper, a professor who studies psychophysiology at San Francisco State University, advises checking your posture every hour to make sure you’re not in the iHunch, or iPosture, position. He also advises bringing smaller devices up to your face while in use instead of forcing yourself to look downward at them in a collapsed position.
5. Sleep with your phone away from your head
There’s a lot of myths and half truths out there about how—and if—your smartphone may be affecting the brain. While there is still a lot of research that needs to be done on the topic of wireless devices, there does seem to be a linkbetween blue light—emitted by electronic screens including those of smartphones—and sleep. Interrupting or changing our sleep patterns is bad for a lot of reasons. For example, lack of enough deep sleep could be preventing us from flushing harmful beta-amyloid from our brains.
According to Tara Swart, a senior lecturer at MIT specializing in sleep and the brain, our brains’ natural cleansing system requires six to eight hours of sleep. Without it, brains eventually encounter major build-ups of beta-amyloid, a neurotoxin found in clumps in the brains of people with neurological disorders like dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
While scientists have always known that the brain cleanses wastes, much like the body, the sophistication of this cleansing system wasinvestigated in 2013by Maiken Nedergaard of the Center for Translational Neuromedicine at the University of Rochester. This study found “hidden caves” that open up in our brains when we’re in a deep enough sleep. This liquid cleaning system, dubbed the “glymphatic system,” enables copious amounts of neurotoxins to be pushed through the spinal column.
So, exactly how far away do you need to keep your smart devices? We’re not completely sure, but Swart says it’s a good idea to not sleep with it next to your head. Ultimately, keeping our brains healthy takes willpower and resilience, just like with any other part of our bodies. But as research shows, staying sound of body and mind as we age is certainly possible—with a little effort.
Correction: A previous version of this piece cited research regarding the effects of Wi-Fi on sleep patterns that was inconclusive. It has been updated with research regarding the effects of blue light on sleep patterns.
This Article was published in The World Economics forum
Tuesday, 14 June 2016
Morale Letter from Seneca to his friend Lucilius on saving time
I. On Saving Time
Greetings from Seneca to his friend Lucilius.
1. Continue to act thus, my dear Lucilius – set yourself free for your own sake; gather and save your time, which till lately has been forced from you, or filched away, or has merely slipped from your hands. Make yourself believe the truth of my words, – that certain moments are torn from us, that some are gently removed, and that others glide beyond our reach. The most disgraceful kind of loss, however, is that due to carelessness. Furthermore, if you will pay close heed to the problem, you will find that the largest portion of our life passes while we are doing ill, a goodly share while we are doing nothing, and the whole while we are doing that which is not to the purpose.
2. What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands. Therefore, Lucilius, do as you write me that you are doing: hold every hour in your grasp. Lay hold of to-day's task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow's. While we are postponing, life speeds by.
3. Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of this single thing, so fleeting and slippery that anyone who will can oust us from possession. What fools these mortals be! They allow the cheapest and most useless things, which can easily be replaced, to be charged in the reckoning, after they have acquired them; but they never regard themselves as in debt when they have received some of that precious commodity, – time! And yet time is the one loan which even a grateful recipient cannot repay.
4. You may desire to know how I, who preach to you so freely, am practising. I confess frankly: my expense account balances, as you would expect from one who is free-handed but careful. I cannot boast that I waste nothing, but I can at least tell you what I am wasting, and the cause and manner of the loss; I can give you the reasons why I am a poor man. My situation, however, is the same as that of many who are reduced to slender means through no fault of their own: every one forgives them, but no one comes to their rescue.
5. What is the state of things, then? It is this: I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him. I advise you, however, to keep what is really yours; and you cannot begin too early. For, as our ancestors believed, it is too late to spare when you reach the dregs of the cask. Of that which remains at the bottom, the amount is slight, and the quality is vile. Farewell.
Friday, 10 June 2016
Moral letters to Lucilius
- Letter 1. On saving time
- Letter 2. On discursiveness in reading
- Letter 3. On true and false friendship
- Letter 4. On the terrors of death
- Letter 5. On the philosopher's mean
- Letter 6. On sharing knowledge
- Letter 7. On crowds
- Letter 8. On the philosopher's seclusion
- Letter 9. On philosophy and friendship
- Letter 10. On living to oneself
- Letter 11. On the blush of modesty
- Letter 12. On old age
- Letter 13. On groundless fears
- Letter 14. On the reasons for withdrawing from the world
- Letter 15. On brawn and brains
- Letter 16. On philosophy, the guide of life
- Letter 17. On philosophy and riches
- Letter 18. On festivals and fasting
- Letter 19. On worldliness and retirement
- Letter 20. On practising what you preach
- Letter 21. On the renown which my writings will bring you
- Letter 22. On the futility of half-way measures
- Letter 23. On the true joy which comes from philosophy
- Letter 24. On despising death
- Letter 25. On reformation
- Letter 26. On old age and death
- Letter 27. On the good which abides
- Letter 28. On travel as a cure for discontent
- Letter 29. On the critical condition of Marcellinus
- Letter 30. On conquering the conqueror
- Letter 31. On siren songs
- Letter 32. On progress
- Letter 33. On the futility of learning maxims
- Letter 34. On a promising pupil
- Letter 35. On the friendship of kindred minds
- Letter 36. On the value of retirement
- Letter 37. On allegiance to virtue
- Letter 38. On quiet conversation
- Letter 39. On noble aspirations
- Letter 40. On the proper style for a philosopher's discourse
- Letter 41. On the god within us
- Letter 42. On values
- Letter 43. On the relativity of fame
- Letter 44. On philosophy and pedigrees
- Letter 45. On sophistical argumentation
- Letter 46. On a new book by Lucilius
- Letter 47. On master and slave
- Letter 48. On quibbling as unworthy of the philosopher
- Letter 49. On the shortness of life
- Letter 50. On our blindness and its cure
- Letter 51. On Baiae and morals
- Letter 52. On choosing our teachers
- Letter 53. On the faults of the spirit
- Letter 54. On asthma and death
- Letter 55. On Vatia's villa
- Letter 56. On quiet and study
- Letter 57. On the trials of travel
- Letter 58. On being
- Letter 59. On pleasure and joy
- Letter 60. On harmful prayers
- Letter 61. On meeting death cheerfully
- Letter 62. On good company
- Letter 63. On grief for lost friends
- Letter 64. On the philosopher's task
- Letter 65. On the first cause
- Volume 2
- Letter 66. On various aspects of virtue
- Letter 67. On ill-health and endurance of suffering
- Letter 68. On wisdom and retirement
- Letter 69. On rest and restlessness
- Letter 70. On the proper time to slip the cable
- Letter 71. On the supreme good
- Letter 72. On business as the enemy of philosophy
- Letter 73. On philosophers and kings
- Letter 74. On virtue as a refuge from worldly distractions
- Letter 75. On the diseases of the soul
- Letter 76. On learning wisdom in old age
- Letter 77. On taking one's own life
- Letter 78. On the healing power of the mind
- Letter 79. On the rewards of scientific discovery
- Letter 80. On worldly deceptions
- Letter 81. On benefits
- Letter 82. On the natural fear of death
- Letter 83. On drunkenness
- Letter 84. On gathering ideas
- Letter 85. On some vain syllogisms
- Letter 86. On Scipio's villa
- Letter 87. Some arguments in favour of the simple life
- Letter 88. On liberal and vocational studies
- Letter 89. On the parts of philosophy
- Letter 90. On the part played by philosophy in the progress of man
- Letter 91. On the lesson to be drawn from the burning of Lyons
- Letter 92. On the happy life
- Volume 3
- Letter 93. On the quality, as contrasted with the length, of life
- Letter 94. On the value of advice
- Letter 95. On the usefulness of basic principles
- Letter 96. On facing hardships
- Letter 97. On the degeneracy of the age
- Letter 98. On the fickleness of fortune
- Letter 99. On consolation to the bereaved
- Letter 100. On the writings of Fabianus
- Letter 101. On the futility of planning ahead
- Letter 102. On the intimations of our immortality
- Letter 103. On the dangers of association with our fellow-men
- Letter 104. On care of health and peace of mind
- Letter 105. On facing the world with confidence
- Letter 106. On the corporeality of virtue
- Letter 107. On obedience to the universal will
- Letter 108. On the approaches to philosophy
- Letter 109. On the fellowship of wise men
- Letter 110. On true and false riches
- Letter 111. On the vanity of mental gymnastics
- Letter 112. On reforming hardened sinners
- Letter 113. On the vitality of the soul and its attributes
- Letter 114. On style as a mirror of character
- Letter 115. On the superficial blessings
- Letter 116. On self-control
- Letter 117. On real ethics as superior to syllogistic subtleties
- Letter 118. On the vanity of place-seeking
- Letter 119. On nature as our best provider
- Letter 120. More about virtue
- Letter 121. On instinct in animals
- Letter 122. On darkness as a veil for wickedness
- Letter 123. On the conflict between pleasure and virtue
- Letter 124. On the true good as attained by reason
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