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  2. Seneca the Younger - Wikipedia

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    Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (/ ˈ s ɛ n ɪ k ə / SEN-ik-ə; c. 4 BC – AD 65), [1] usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.

  3. List of Stoic philosophers - Wikipedia

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    Teacher of Seneca. Rhetorician and philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC–65 AD) Statesman, philosopher, and playwright. Many of his works are extant Thrasea Paetus (c. 10 AD–66 AD) Roman senator and Stoic Lucius Annaeus Cornutus (c. 20–c. 70 AD) Stoic teacher who wrote a Compendium of Greek Theology Chaeremon of Alexandria (fl. 50 AD ...

  4. Seneca the Elder - Wikipedia

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    Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Elder (/ ˈ s ɛ n ɪ k ə / SEN-ik-ə; c. 54 BC – c. AD 39), also known as Seneca the Rhetorician, was a Roman writer, born of a wealthy equestrian family of Corduba, Hispania.

  5. Letter 47 (Seneca) - Wikipedia

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    Seneca the Younger's Letter 47 of his Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, sometimes known as On Master and Slave or On Slavery, is an essayistic look at dehumanization in the context of slavery in ancient Rome.

  6. De Ira - Wikipedia

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    Seneca's main sources were Stoic.J. Fillion-Lahille has argued that the first book of the De Ira was inspired by the Stoic philosopher Chrysippus' (3rd-century BC) treatise On Passions (Peri Pathôn), whereas the second and third drew mainly from a later Stoic philosopher, Posidonius (1st-century BC), who had also written a treatise On Passions and differed from Chrysippus in giving a bigger ...

  7. 75 Stoic Quotes from Philosophers of Stoicism About Life ...

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    Founded by the philosopher Zeno of Citium, the Stoic philosophy was founded around 300 BC in Athens, Greece. The four tenets of this philosophy are wisdom, courage, temperance and justice.

  8. 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.

  9. 75 Seneca Quotes About Life, Wisdom and Greatness - AOL

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    These 75 quotes by Seneca capture some of his best works and offer plenty of wisdom for going through daily life. Related: 75 Epictetus Quotes on Life, Philosophy and Empowerment. 75 Seneca Quotes. 1.