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Letters from a stoic dallas public library overdrive. It contains all 124 letters from seneca to lucilius in one volume. As chief advisor to the emperor nero, lucius annaeus seneca was most influential in ancient rome as a power behind the t. This selection of senecas letters shows him upholding the ideals of stoicism the wisdom of the selfpossessed person immune to lifes setbacks while valuing friendship and courage, and criticizing the harsh treatment of slaves and the cruelties in the gladiatorial arena. Read seneca s letters from a stoic by lucius annaeus seneca available from rakuten kobo. Senecas letters in one volume what really ruins our character is the fact that none of us looks back over his life.
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