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Treatises: On Providence, on Tranquility of Mind, on Shortness of Life, on Happy Life
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Paperback, 160 pages
Published
January 9th 2010
by Nabu Press
(first published January 1st 2009)
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I got "On a Happy life" on my kindle, and I enjoyed it. Seneca is a pretty good writer, I found myself highlighting a lot. One of the main points of the book is that one should value virtue over pleasure. Pleasures may come along with virtue, but pleasure is not to be an end. There also plenty containing to contentment. Seneca believed we should be content whether in plenty or in lack (and it does seem he lived this out later in his life, once stripped of his wealth and sent to an island to die)...more
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Wow... I stumbled upon Seneca via Nassim Nicholas Taleb and I'm overwhelmed. I read a few pages every night in my bed and ended up deeply thinking about my own everyday-behaviour.
Forget Prozac and just read this. Self-help books could take a leaf out of it! Especially "On Tranquility of Mind."
Twothousand years old - and still valid.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca) (ca. 4 BC – 65 AD) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. While he was later forced to commit suicide for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate Nero, the last of the Julio-Claudian emperors, he may...more
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