{"id":487,"date":"2022-02-03T07:50:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T07:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestsellersummary.com\/?page_id=487"},"modified":"2023-03-02T13:13:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T13:13:06","slug":"letters-from-a-stoic-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bestsellersummary.com\/books\/letters-from-a-stoic-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters From A Stoic Summary – Seneca’s Best Book?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Letters From a Stoic<\/a> is a book compiled by Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Letters are written on various subjects such as death, wealth, and good vs. bad life choices. Letters discuss how the Stoics should deal with the pain or poverty they have experienced themselves or see happening around them.<\/p>\n

Letters From a Stoic also includes information on being content with what you have versus being envious of others’ possessions and lifestyles. Letters cover these topics using comparisons between rich and poor people of Rome during Seneca’s period.<\/p>\n

It covers how wealthy Romans were unhappy despite their riches because they did not know happiness had nothing to do with money or possessions. Letters also discuss how people from poor backgrounds can find happiness through Stoicism and thinking of the bigger picture of life.<\/p>\n

In the book, Letters From a Stoic<\/a> Seneca talks about what stoics should value in life, like nature and philosophy, versus material objects like a house or a new car.<\/p>\n

Letters From a Stoic<\/a> were written to a Roman Stoic who was living a more luxurious lifestyle than he would have been if he lived his whole life going by the tenets of Stoicism. Letters include characters from myth and history that might interest us today, such as Alexander the Great.<\/p>\n

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