Book · 60 · Nonfiction

Letters from a Stoic

Name: Letters from a Stoic
Author: Seneca

Penguin (Penguin Random House) · 254 pages

★ 7.0 editorial score

Nero's tutor sets down how to die, how to hold wealth lightly, and how to stop waiting for life to begin. Philosophy arrives as advice from someone who likes you.

Genre

Practical philosophy Philosophy

Medium

Essays

Subject

Ethics Stoicism

Time

60Depicts Classical Antiquity

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