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  • Published: 22 October 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141395852
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $32.99

Letters from a Stoic




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Seeing self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', the Stoic philosophy called for the restraint of animal instincts and the importance of upright ethical ideals and virtuous living. Seneca's writings are a profound, powerfully moving and inspiring declaration of the dignity of the individual mind.

  • Published: 22 October 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141395852
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $32.99

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About the author

Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c.4BC - AD65) was born in Cordoba, Spain, where he was brought up studying the traditional virtues of republican Roman life. He became a teacher of rhetoric but attracted attention for his incisive style of writing.

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