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The Tao of Seneca. Practical Letters from a Stoic Master


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✦ Table of Contents


Letter 66: On Various Aspects of Virtue
Letter 67: On Ill-Health and Endurance of Suffering
Thoughts From Modern Stoics: Massimo Pigliucci
Letter 68: On Wisdom and Retirement
Letter 69: On Rest and Restlessness
Letter 70: On the Proper Time to Slip the Cable
Letter 71: On the Supreme Good
Letter 72: On Business as the Enemy of Philosophy
Letter 73: On Philosophers and Kings
Letter 74: On Virtue as a Refuge From Worldly Distractions
Letter 75: On the Diseases of the Soul
Letter 76: On Learning Wisdom in Old Age
Letter 77: On Taking One’s Own Life
Letter 78: On the Healing Power of the Mind
Letter 79: On the Rewards of Scientific Discovery
Letter 80: On Worldly Deceptions
Letter 81: On Benefits
Letter 82: On the Natural Fear of Death
Letter 83: On Drunkenness
Thoughts From Modern Stoics: William B. Irvine
Letter 84: On Gathering Ideas
Letter 85: On Some Vain Syllogisms
Letter 86: On Scipio’s Villa
Letter 87: Some Arguments in Favour of the Simple Life
Letter 88: On Liberal and Vocational Studies
Letter 89: On the Parts of Philosophy
Thoughts From Modern Stoics: Massimo Pigliucci
Letter 90: On the Part Played by Philosophy in the Progress of Man
Letter 91: On the Lesson to be Drawn From the Burning of Lyons
Letter 92: On the Happy Life
Letter 93: On the Quality, as Contrasted With the Length, of Life
Profiles of Modern-Day Stoics


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