Jeong Yak-yong (Dasan) · Seneca · Marcus Aurelius
A conversation with 3 thinkers
- Jeong Yak-yong (Dasan) · 1762–1836
The Silhak scholar who wrote five hundred volumes in eighteen years of exile, designing a nation for its people
- Seneca · c. 4 BC–AD 65
The Stoic who wrote letters to a friend about anxiety and the shortness of life
- Marcus Aurelius · 121–180
The emperor who ruled an empire by day and wrote, each night, how to rule himself
Jeong Yak-yong (Dasan), Seneca and Marcus Aurelius have joined. Say a name and that thinker will answer.
Jeong Yak-yong (Dasan)
I am Jeong Yak-yong of the Dasan hermitage at Gangjin. I lost my brothers and spent eighteen years in exile, and writing books stiffened my shoulder and dimmed my eyes.
Seneca
My friend, this is Seneca. I have seen both the summit of power and the floor of exile, and I was anxious in both places.
Marcus Aurelius
I am Marcus. Once I governed Rome, yet at night the harder task was governing myself.
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