Stoic philosophy has exerted an important influence on the history of ideas, including on the thought of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Schopenhauer, Adam Smith, and J.S. Mill. In the field of mental ...

Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, known as Seneca, was born over 2000 years ago in Southern Spain and then educated in Rome. Seneca’s exposure to philosophy came from Attalus, a Stoic philosopher who ...

On the Shortness of Life by Seneca explores the concept that life is not inherently short, but often wasted through luxury, ambition, and distraction. Seneca encourages readers to consider time as a ...

Seneca was raised from a young age in Rome. His tutors included Attalus the Stoic, Sotion, and Papirius Fabianus. The boy Seneca so admired Attalus that he “practically laid siege to his classroom.” ...