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Seneca's Letters to Lucilius
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https://gptkb.org/entity/Seneca's_Letters_to_Lucilius
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gptkb:Epistulae_Morales_ad_Lucilium
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gptkb:Seneca_the_Younger
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gptkb:Roman_Empire
gptkbp:dateWritten
circa 62-65 AD
gptkbp:genre
epistolary literature
gptkbp:hasLetter
124
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gptkb:Oxford_World's_Classics
gptkb:Penguin_Classics
gptkb:Loeb_Classical_Library
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Seneca's Letters to Lucilius
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gptkb:Christian_thought
later Stoic philosophers
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ethics
practical advice
Stoic philosophy
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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.
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gptkb:Latin
gptkbp:preservedIn
manuscripts from the Middle Ages
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various editions since antiquity
gptkbp:recipient
gptkb:Lucilius_Junior
gptkbp:significance
influential in Western thought
major source of Stoic philosophy
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gptkb:Greek
gptkb:philosophy
classical studies
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gptkb:wisdom
death
fate
friendship
happiness
nature
virtue
wealth
reason
self-control
tranquility
adversity
anger
philosophical progress
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gptkb:Robin_Campbell
gptkb:A._D._Nuttall
gptkb:Richard_M._Gummere
gptkb:Margaret_Graver
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gptkb:Lucilius_Junior
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