Perhaps I am simply late to the table, but it is hard to grasp the ancients clear grasp of the human experience and how they understood life can be stripped of its joy. Seneca's guidance about how to have tranquility and "lengthen" life are remarkably insightful. Maybe it is not remarkable, I am simply acclimated to assuming that this sort of insight belongs to the moderns and post-moderns.

Wake up!