Episode 18

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15th Oct 2025

Chapter 18: On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca the Younger

Today, we read chapter 18 of On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca the Younger.

“Our...leader’s efforts to play the mad foreign King almost caused a famine, and what surely would have been the destruction of Rome, following the entire populace’s destruction.”


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