Letters to Lucilius. Books III and IV.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 10619 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 122 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2007 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251799926 |
Classic bilingual collection. Tutor and then minister of Nero, the tyrannical and bloodthirsty emperor, the cause could be heard: Seneca paid a high price for his excessive flattery and his blindness. His suicide will be his failure. This would be to forget both the man and the era, it would be to ignore an exemplary work. The Letters to Lucilius, a true monument of ancient thought, present Seneca to us almost naked, without makeup, and practicing wisdom: "It is the soul that must be changed, not the climate. By offering the reader, without hesitation, the example of his life, he exhorts him to an urgent conversion to philosophy. "No one asks himself if he lives well, but if he will have long to live. However, everyone is master of living well; no one, of living long (Letter 22, 17).
Classic bilingual collection. Tutor and then minister of Nero, the tyrannical and bloodthirsty emperor, the cause could be heard: Seneca paid a high price for his excessive flattery and his blindness. His suicide will be his failure. This would be to forget both the man and the era, it would be to ignore an exemplary work. The Letters to Lucilius, a true monument of ancient thought, present Seneca to us almost naked, without makeup, and practicing wisdom: "It is the soul that must be changed, not the climate. By offering the reader, without hesitation, the example of his life, he exhorts him to an urgent conversion to philosophy. "No one asks himself if he lives well, but if he will have long to live. However, everyone is master of living well; no one, of living long (Letter 22, 17).