Stoics’ Guide to Friendship.

Vashik Armenikus
7 min readJul 25, 2022
Nero and Seneca, by Eduardo Barrón (1904), Museo del Prado | WikiCommons

“Nothing will ever please, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must keep the knowledge to myself… No good thing is pleasant to possess without friends to share it.” ~ from Seneca’s Letters.

Knowledge and wisdom lose all their wealth if you do not use them in daily life; if you do not apply them to help someone, who finds himself in need. You can read all the books in the world, for example, but what will…

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Vashik Armenikus

A music expert. Renaissance art student. A passionate reader. I scrutinise art to find its secrets.