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  2. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium - Wikipedia

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    Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Latin for "Moral Letters to Lucilius"), also known as the Moral Epistles and Letters from a Stoic, is a letter collection of 124 letters that Seneca the Younger wrote at the end of his life, during his retirement, after he had worked for the Emperor Nero for more than ten years.

  3. Lucilius Junior - Wikipedia

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    The information about Lucilius comes from Seneca's writings, especially his Moral Letters, which are addressed to Lucilius. Seneca also dedicated his Naturales Quaestiones and his essay De Providentia to Lucilius. Lucilius seems to have been a native of Campania, and Seneca refers repeatedly to "your beloved Pompeii." [1] At the time Seneca ...

  4. Seneca the Younger - Wikipedia

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    Seneca's first letter to Lucilius, discussing the value of time, in Latin with English subtitles. His works discuss both ethical theory and practical advice, and Seneca stresses that both parts are distinct but interdependent. [51] His Letters to Lucilius showcase Seneca's search for ethical perfection. [51]

  5. Non scholae sed vitae - Wikipedia

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    It appears in an occupatio passage wherein Seneca imagines Lucilius's objections to his arguments. Non vitae sed scholae discimus ("We learn [such literature] not for life but for classtime") was thus already a complaint, the implication being that Lucilius would argue in favor of more practical education and that mastery of literature was ...

  6. Correspondence of Paul and Seneca - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known reference to them is in Jerome's On Illustrious Men chapter 12, a work of around 392 CE: [7]. Lucius Annaeus Seneca of Cordova, a disciple of the Stoic Sotion, and paternal uncle of the poet Lucan, was a man of very temperate life whom I would not place in a catalogue of saints, were it not that I was prompted to do so by those Letters from Paul to Seneca and from Seneca to ...

  7. Seneca's Consolations - Wikipedia

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    Like Seneca's other consolatory works, this consolation is constructed in the Consolatio tradition, and takes the form of an essay versus a personal letter. Seneca was most likely motivated to write this letter of consolation to Marcia in order to gain her favor; Marcia was the daughter of a prominent historian, Aulus Cremutius Cordus, and her ...

  8. ‘A love letter to Cuba’: Owners of popular restaurant open ...

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    Now Sherrer and Llampalla are widening their scope with the new Social 27 Supper Club, which they call their “love letter” to the Cuba of the 1940s and 1950s, where supper clubs were all the rage.

  9. De Brevitate Vitae (Seneca) - Wikipedia

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    De Brevitate Vitae (English: On the Shortness of Life) is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime around the year 49 AD, to his father-in-law Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time , namely that people waste much of it in meaningless pursuits.