/lit/ - Literature

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There are definitely huge similarities, I think it's almost certain Nietzsche read Seneca, I wonder if he ever makes any direct mention of him.
Suppose the main difference is that Nietzsche considered the tumults of emotion to be a good while Seneca considered them to be the remnant of the animal half of man, enslaved to the primal instinct found in beasts, which ought to be mastered by man's other half (reason)