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Letters to Lucilius on how to live: the most readable and most quoted body of Stoic writing.
The Edition
- Original language
- Latin
- Translated by
- Richard M. Gummere
Publication
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Series volume
- 76
- Date published
- 1920-01-01
- Print status
- In print
The Physical Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Dust jacket
- Yes
- Total pages
- 496 pages
- ISBN-13
- 9780674990852
Reference
- Read online
- Read Here
- Publisher page
- View at publisher
Contents
- Epistles
- 66. On Various Aspects of Virtue
- 67. On Ill-Health And Endurance of Suffering
- 68. On Wisdom and Retirement
- 69. On Rest and Restlessness
- 70. On the Proper Time to Slip the Cable
- 71. On the Supreme Good
- 72. On Business as the Enemy of Philosophy
- 73. On Philosophers and Kings
- 74. On Virtue as a Refuge from Worldly Distractions
- 75. On the Diseases of the Soul
- 76. On Learning Wisdom in Old Age
- 77. On Taking One’s Own Life
- 78. On The Healing Power of the Mind
- 79. On the rewards of scientific Discovery
- 80. On Worldly Deceptions
- 81. On Benefits
- 82. On The Natural Fear of Death
- 83. On Drunkenness
- 84. On Gathering Ideas
- 85. On Some Vain Syllogisms
- 86. On Scipio’s Villa
- 87. Some Arguments in Favour of the Simple Life
- 88. On Liberal and Vocational Studies
- 89. On the Parts of Philosophy
- 90. On the Part Played by Philosophy in the Progress of Man
- 91. On the Lesson to be Drawn from the Burning of Lyons
- 92. On the Happy Life
- Appendix
- Index of Proper Names