Summary
Seneca: Letters to a friend
"Seneca was one of the most prolific writers in Rome, and as an artist in anti-ethical expression one of the greatest stylists in world literature. If Seneca was also a man of blood and did not always adhere to the strict principles of Stoicism, because he quickly amassed great wealth, indulged the passions of his student and was a greengrocer, he was nevertheless brave in that he did not retire from his high position until the age of sixty into a private life, where the cultivation of virtues is much easier. By the inevitable force of circumstances, the statesman becomes a cosmopolitan, whose subject is humanity. When the individual's personal influence on public life has ceased, Seneca's practical life becomes otium, liberation from the task of his time and work on the eternal tasks of humanity, the theoretical life of a philosopher, who has become a paedagogus generis humani, and whose world is no longer res publica Romana, but a world to which all people belong regardless of class and nation."
- Miloš N. Đurić
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