On the futility of half-way measures
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Book Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
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5.
Shall you then be put out with me, if I not only come to advise you, but also call in others to advise you,—wiser heads than my own, men before whom I am wont to lay any problem upon which I am pondering?
Read the letter of Epicurus which bears on this matter; it is addressed to Idomeneus.
The writer asks him to hasten as fast as he can, and beat a retreat before some stronger influence comes between and takes from him the liberty to withdraw.
Book: Moral Letters Vol I
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the futility of half-way measures
Location: Chapter 22, Section 5
Content:
5.
Shall you then be put out with me, if I not only come to advise you, but also call in others to advise you,—wiser heads than my own, men before whom I am wont to lay any problem upon which I am pondering?
Read the letter of Epicurus which bears on this matter; it is addressed to Idomeneus.
The writer asks him to hasten as fast as he can, and beat a retreat before some stronger influence comes between and takes from him the liberty to withdraw.