Seneca, On the Shortness of Life - Chapters 1-5 #376
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Seneca, On the Shortness of Life - Chapters 1-5 #376
Dear friends and supporters of Daily Philosophy,
Welcome back to our read-along project! We are reading Seneca’s On the Shortness of Life, one of the best-known Stoic classics. The previous week, I se…
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