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Letters from a Stoic (Letters to Lucilius)

Seneca the Younger

One hundred and twenty-four letters of philosophical counsel from Seneca to his younger friend Lucilius. The most accessible entry into Stoic ethics in any language.

In Res

Seneca writes the way a good mentor talks — concretely, repeatedly, on the same handful of themes from a dozen angles. The letter form is the lesson: a position has to be lived with, not delivered once.

Subjects

  • stoicism
  • ethics
  • friendship
  • death
  • self-mastery

Editions

  • 1969

    Paperback

    Penguin Classics· English· 256 pp.

    ISBN-13 9780140442106