https://media.blubrry.com/littlebook/www.lettersfromastoic.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/05_Letter_5__On_The_Philosophers_Me.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Email | RSSBy Lucius Annaeus Seneca I commend you and rejoice in the fact that you are persistent in your studies, and that, putting all else aside, you make it each day your endeavour to become a better man. I do not merely exhort you to keep […]
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Letter 4: On The Terrors of Death
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Letter 3: On True and False Friendship
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Letter 2: On Discursiveness in Reading
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Letter 1: On Saving Time
https://media.blubrry.com/littlebook/www.lettersfromastoic.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/01_Lettter_1__On_Saving_Time_-_Lette.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Email | RSSBy Lucius Annaeus Seneca Greetings from Seneca to his friend Lucilius. Continue to act thus, my dear Lucilius – set yourself free for your own sake; gather and save your time, which till lately has been forced from you, or filched away, or has merely […]