Letters from a Stoic by Seneca (Paperback)

By Seneca
Selected and translated by Robin Campbell

Written near the end of Seneca’s life, these letters to his friend Lucilius turn philosophy toward ordinary pressures: time, money, grief, friendship, anger, ambition, fear, and mortality.

Seneca is practical, sharp, occasionally contradictory, and more interested in how a person lives than how impressive their ideas sound. His version of Stoicism is not about becoming cold. It is about building enough judgment and self-command to meet an unstable world without letting it make every decision for you.

Why we carry it

Because Stoicism is more useful as a practice than a pose. Seneca asks how to keep fear, appetite, status, and anger from doing the thinking. That belongs beside any machine that demands calm judgment.

This edition includes

• Robin Campbell’s selected translation
• An introduction, chronology, and updated notes by Liz Gloyn
• An appendix on Seneca’s death
• An index and suggestions for further reading

Book details

• Author: Seneca
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 352
• Publication date: July 30, 1969
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• ISBN-13: 9780140442106