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He lost everything in a shipwreck and found philosophy. Then he built Stoicism.
Stoic philosopher, tutor to an emperor, and the richest man in Rome. He wrote about poverty and died by his own hand on Nero's orders.
Connection
Zeno of Citium founder of tradition Seneca — Zeno founded Stoicism. Seneca carried it into the Roman world three centuries later.
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“We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.”
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.”
Key Moments
c. 334 BCE
Born in Citium
c. 312 BCE
Shipwreck and Discovery
c. 300 BCE
Teaching at the Painted Porch
c. 300 BCE
Virtue as the Only Good
c. 4 BCE
Born in Cordoba
41 CE
Exiled to Corsica
49 CE
Recalled to Tutor Nero
62 CE
Moral Letters to Lucilius
Works
Fragments & Doctrines
Republic
On Anger
The Minor Dialogues
Letters to Lucilius