Letters from a Stoic

"If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according to what others think, you will never be rich." For several years of his turbulent life, in which he was dogged by ill health, exile and danger, Seneca was the guiding hand of the Roman Empire. These letters to his friend Lucilius, written nearly two thousand years ago, are more than philosophical musings—they are pr...