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“'Letters to Lucilius' is a good example; that's addressed to someone, but you can see him working out death and grief in that work. Same with 'On the Shortness of Life'; it's an intellectual exercise and a spiritual exercise. They didn't have a pre-fitted philosophy or theology that they could live by; they had to come up with it themselves,”
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“seneca actually writes explicitly it's like look he writes a beautiful letter to his friend lucillus and he says look my friend the people that came before us are not our masters”