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Letters to Lucilius

Seneca

Form
Form Letters
Year
Year 65 CE
Originally in
Originally in Latin
Pages
Pages 450

An old statesman writes letters to a younger friend on time, wealth, anger, friendship and death, teaching that philosophy is a daily practice for living and dying well.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
Letters to Lucilius, Seneca

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