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    Of peace of mind

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    De Tranquillitate Animi is a philosophical treatise about the relation between happiness and peace of mind.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFV Éditions
    Release dateOct 3, 2016
    ISBN9791029902796
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    Sêneca

    The writer and politician Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BCE–65 CE) was one of the most influential figures in the philosophical school of thought known as Stoicism. He was notoriously condemned to death by enforced suicide by the Emperor Nero.

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