Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium

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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.