Some simple life principles, in three words
1. Scorn:
2. - toil
3. - death
Scorn meaning: mocking abuse; possibly coming from Old French esconer, “to break off (someone’s) horns”.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/scorn
Perhaps, let them have no power over you. Deride them, break their chains and disgrace their harshest rule.
Credit due: thoughts loosely inspired by Seneca’s letters to Lucilius, “On Siren Songs”, and, “The Healing Power of the Mind”.
#words #etymology #seneca
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