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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
What are your views on Seneca?
Regarded by some (in his own time) as a pseudo-Stoic, wasn't he?
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 16:28,
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It's one of the most popular gentle laxatives on sale in the UK.
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 16:30,
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TGB's posts being the most popular.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 16:33,
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I've not read any Seneca...
One of my tasks over the summer will be to get to grips with Stoicism; at present I'm working on a hunch that it'd be useful.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 16:34,
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His 'Letters from a Stoic'
is remarkably easy reading.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 16:36,
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He was faster
but more erratic than Prost.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 16:49,
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and more erotic then Proust.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 17:00,
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