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Moral Letters Vol II

Seneca

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On the proper time to slip the cable

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Book Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.

Book Description: The second volume of Seneca's moral letters to Lucilius. Each letter contains Seneca's advice and wisdom won from a life of Roman politics.

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After a long space of time I have seen your beloved Pompeii.

I was thus brought again face to face with the days of my youth.

And it seemed to me that I could still do, nay, had only done a short time ago, all the things which I did there when a young man.