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What Seneca learned on a rocky island that most people never will

In 41 AD, Seneca was one of the most powerful men in Rome. He advised emperors. He shaped policy. He was at the centre of everything. Then he was gone. Accused of adultery (almost certainly a political maneuver), he was exiled to Corsica, a rocky island at the edge of the known world. No trial. No appeal. Just removal.

From that island, Seneca wrote a le…