Seneca's Letters to Lucilius

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gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Epistulae_Morales_ad_Lucilium
gptkbp:author gptkb:Seneca_the_Younger
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:Roman_Empire
gptkbp:dateWritten circa 62-65 AD
gptkbp:genre epistolary literature
gptkbp:hasLetter 124
gptkbp:hasModernEdition gptkb:Oxford_World's_Classics
gptkb:Penguin_Classics
gptkb:Loeb_Classical_Library
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Seneca's Letters to Lucilius
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Christian_thought
later Stoic philosophers
gptkbp:mainTheme ethics
practical advice
Stoic philosophy
gptkbp:notableQuote It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
No man was ever wise by chance.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
gptkbp:originalLanguage gptkb:Latin
gptkbp:preservedIn manuscripts from the Middle Ages
gptkbp:publishedIn various editions since antiquity
gptkbp:recipient gptkb:Lucilius_Junior
gptkbp:significance influential in Western thought
major source of Stoic philosophy
gptkbp:studiedIn gptkb:Greek
gptkb:philosophy
classical studies
gptkbp:subject gptkb:time_zone
gptkb:wisdom
death
fate
friendship
happiness
nature
virtue
wealth
reason
self-control
tranquility
adversity
anger
philosophical progress
gptkbp:translatedInto gptkb:Robin_Campbell
gptkb:A._D._Nuttall
gptkb:Richard_M._Gummere
gptkb:Margaret_Graver
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Lucilius_Junior
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6