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Sobre la brevedad de la vida, el ocio y la felicidadsecond-hand

by Lucio Anneo Séneca

Published by Acantilado · Biography and literary studies · ISBN 9788415689645

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This volume gathers three treatises by the Stoic philosopher Seneca: On the Shortness of Life (from the year 49), On the Happy Life (around 58) and On Leisure (around 62). In them he asks how to use time well, how pleasure relates to virtue, what happiness consists of and what worth there is in withdrawing from public life.

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For anyone who wants a first taste of Stoicism in short texts, written as a conversation with the reader about the art of living.
Why people still read it
Seneca, who lived from 4 BC to AD 65, has been a model for the essay since antiquity, and writers such as Erasmus, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Cioran admired his way of writing philosophy.

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