Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Letters from a Stoic

Lucius Annaeus Seneca with Robin Campbell (Translator)

nonfiction classics history philosophy challenging slow-paced

254 pages | first published 64

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A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', Stoicism called for the restraint of animal instincts and the severing of emotional ties. These beliefs were formulated by the Athenian followers o...
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