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Dialogues
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $72.95
Publisher: Lushena Books
Published: Jan 28 2026
Pages: 582
Weight: 2.68
Height: 1.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Dialogues is not a single story but a set of short philosophical essays in which Seneca, the Roman Stoic, tries to teach people how to live without being owned by fear, anger, or fortune.
At its core, the book argues that most human misery comes from false judgments. We suffer not because things happen, but because of how we interpret them. Seneca urges the reader to cultivate inner freedom: value reason over impulse, accept what lies outside your control, and treat adversity as training rather than punishment. He writes about anger, grief, shortness of life, and the misuse of leisure, always circling back to the same idea: a calm, disciplined mind is the only true security.
It's practical Stoicism-less about abstract theory, more about how to remain steady in a chaotic world, where power, wealth, and reputation are fragile illusions, but character is not.
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