PhilosophersSénèque
Sénèque
It is not that we have little time, but that we waste much.
Stoicismvers 4 av. J.-C. – 65 ItalyStoicSpiritual guide (the Letters to Lucilius)Adviser to the emperor NeroAuthor of tragedies
Inspirations
Zénon, Cléanthe et ChrysippeGreek Stoicism; he translated a hymn of Cleanthes into Latin verse
Socrate the model of the wise man, with Cato the Younger
Épicurethe rival school, which he constantly quotes: "any truth is my own property"
Cicéron the model of philosophy written in Latin
Aristote against "useful" anger and the complaint about life's shortness
criticHeirs
Marc Aurèle Roman Stoicism
Les Pères de l'Église (Tertullien, Jérôme, Augustin) "Seneca, often one of ours"
Montaigne et Juste Lipsethe Essays; Neostoicism
Descartes reads On the Happy Life with Elisabeth of Bohemia (1645)
Diderot defends Seneca in his Essay on the Reigns of Claudius and Nero
Hume against a Providence that educates through misfortune
criticSimilar and opposite philosophers
how it is computedClosest
Matthew Tindal Christianity is as old as the Creation: natural religion is perfect and revelation can only restate it.
100 %Marcus Aurelius What is not up to you should not trouble you.
92 %Épictète A former slave turned Stoic teacher: he taught that we can act only on our judgements and desires, never on the rest.
92 %Chrysippe Everything happens by fate, but our acts depend on us as a cylinder rolls according to its shape.
87 %