I’m stuck in a car with two children, but sh*t happens

THE lovely people at Penguin sent a book about the Roman philosopher, Seneca, written by a professor of classics, Emily Wilson.

Seneca was a Stoic, and Stoicism was easier than Cynicism. Not modern cynicism — all rolling eyes and jaded yawns — but Cynicism in its original form.

The movement was started a few thousand years ago by Diogenes, who lived in a barrel on the streets of Athens, and threw away his last possession — a spoon — when he saw a beggar drinking water from his cupped hands.