On the Happy Life

Name: On the Happy Life
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Essay on tranquility and living happily through Stoic philosophy

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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.

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