Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. “The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass,” said the ancient Greek philosopher ...

Ancient philosophy, for all its theoretical underpinnings, was above all an art of living, which aimed, through self-transformation, at controlling the passions, relieving suffering, and attaining ...

You observe that there are no feminine angels in heaven ? Aristippus. So much the better for us, if we have them all here. Diogenes. For the same reason, probably, we are told that there will be ...