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Letters From a Stoic

Name: Letters From a Stoic
Rating: 5 (9 reviews)
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
ISBN: 9781365226625

Lucius Annaeus Seneca · 2004 · 152 pages

Written over two thousand years ago, Seneca's moral letters to his friend Lucilius - aka Letters from a Stoic - still holds the power to enthrall. For a new generation of Stoic students and practitioners (and the merely curious), this lively, timeless guide to living the good life is essential reading. The epistles were written by Seneca at the end of his life, during his retirement, after he had worked for the Emperor Nero for fifteen years. They are addressed to Lucilius, the then procurator of Sicily, although he is known only through Seneca's writings. Whether or not Seneca and Lucilius actually corresponded, or whether in fact Seneca created the work as a form of fiction, is not clear from the historical record. This is the first volume of the Letters, Epistles I-LXV.

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Ryan Holiday
“Practical advice on grief, wealth, power, religion, and life from Nero's tutor, always available when needed.”↗
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“Popper, Deutsch, Schopenhauer, Osho, Krishnamurti, DeMello, Seneca, Kapil Gupta, Taleb, there are too many...”↗
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Jerzy Gregorek
“From Letters from a Stoic, I learned self-mastery: to constantly improve myself so I would be ready for any possible disaster. I also learned that when disaster happens, it means that something is being asked of me. I need to improve.”↗
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