Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
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About this edition
Written by the richest man in Rome to a friend who needed guidance. 124 letters on how to live, how to die, and how to stop wasting time on things that don't matter.
Seneca was a Roman senator, playwright, and advisor to Emperor Nero — a man who navigated the most dangerous political environment in history and lived to write about it (until he didn't). His letters to Lucilius are the most accessible Stoic texts ever written — practical, conversational, and brutally honest about the human tendency to waste the one thing we can't get back: time.
These are not lectures. They're letters from a man who had real power, real enemies, and real problems, explaining how he kept his mind together while the world around him burned. On anger, on grief, on the fear of death, on the difference between being busy and being productive — Seneca wrote it all with the clarity of a man who knew his own time was running out.
If Marcus Aurelius is the emperor talking to himself, Seneca is the mentor talking to you.
THIS EDITION
- Richard Mott Gummere translation — clear, direct, faithful
- Civil Savage Society cover and interior design
- ~320 pages | 6×9 trim | cream paper
- Available in paperback and hardcover
124 letters. Two thousand years. The advice hasn't aged because the problems haven't changed.
