Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Rome's leading Stoic philosopher and most brilliant prose stylist, Seneca wrote letters and essays that brought Stoic ethics to practical human life. His Moral Letters to Lucilius are among the most humane writings of antiquity. He was forced to commit suicide by Nero, the emperor he had tutored.
Works
- Moral Letters to LuciliusCollection of letters advising on virtue, philosophy, and ethical living
- On the Shortness of LifeEssay on mortality and time-management as existential philosophical challenge
- On AngerTreatise on controlling destructive emotion through reason and virtue
- On the Happy LifeEssay on tranquility and living happily through Stoic philosophy
- On ProvidencePhilosophical letter on accepting fate and trusting divine order