Epistulae Morales Selectae
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Seneca is an important repository of Stoic doctrine. His reputation, based on the ancient testimony, has
remained ambiguous down to the present day: he was a Stoic hero who attempted to advise Nero, he was a
dissolute hypocrite, he was a Christian saint. That said, his letters provided a format for philosophical
discourse that long remained valid for Western Europe. His musings always sprang from concrete situations:
the games in the Coliseum, the noise from a public bath below his apartment. Montaigne admired the ...
remained ambiguous down to the present day: he was a Stoic hero who attempted to advise Nero, he was a
dissolute hypocrite, he was a Christian saint. That said, his letters provided a format for philosophical
discourse that long remained valid for Western Europe. His musings always sprang from concrete situations:
the games in the Coliseum, the noise from a public bath below his apartment. Montaigne admired the ...
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