Letters from a stoic – the ancient classic Ebook

Lucius Annaeus Seneca 4 BCE–65 CE was Roman philosopher, statesman, orator, and tragedian, and was Romes leading intellectual figure in the mid-1st century ce. Seneca was born in Corduba in Hispania, and raised in Rome, where he was trained in rhetoric and philosophy. Seneca is known for his philosophical works and for his plays, and his prose works are considered one of the most important bodies of primary material for ancient Stoicism.Tom Butler-Bowden was working as a political adviser in Australia when, at 25, he read Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Captivated by it and other books in the personal development field, he left his career and went on to write critical introductions to self-development and prosperity classics through the best-selling Capstone Classics series published by Wiley. He then went on to write bestselling 50 Self-Help Classics, the first guide to the personal development literature and a winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award.