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reviewed Letters from a Stoic. by Seneca the Younger (The Penguin classics L210)

Seneca the Younger: Letters from a Stoic. (1969, Penguin) 4 stars

This selection of Seneca's letters shows him upholding the ethical ideals of Stoicism—the wisdom of …

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4 stars

Idealism is the killer of wisdom, it's a shame.

This book is great and I think if we applied stoic advice in our lives we'd be better off, but Seneca often goes on and on about idealist and frankly wrong conceptions that he has, and then elevates that BS to philosophy