Reading On the Good Life (including The Dream of Scipio) | Alexandria
Read On the Good Life (including The Dream of Scipio) by Marcus Tullius Cicero. Weaving radical joy into practical wisdom, Cicero's essays reveal how pursuing pleasure strategically leads to virtue - a counterintuitive idea that challenged Roman stoicism and still disrupts our "no pain, no gain" assumptions. His vision of the good life merges duty with delight, proving that living well requires both moral courage and artful enjoyment.