On siren songs
31:11
Book Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
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11.
What we have to seek for, then, is that which does not each day pass more and more under the control of some power which cannot be withstood.
And what is this?
It is the soul,—but the soul that is upright, good, and great.
What else could you call such a soul than a god dwelling as a guest in a human body?
A soul like this may descend into a Roman knight just as well as into a freedman’s son or a slave.
For what is a Roman knight, or a freedman’s son, or a slave?
They are mere titles, born of ambition or of wrong.
One may leap to heaven from the very slums.
Only rise This moulding will not be done in gold or silver; an image that is to be in the likeness of God cannot be fashioned of such materials; remember that the gods, when they were kind unto men, were moulded in clay.
Farewell.
Book: Moral Letters Vol I
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On siren songs
Location: Chapter 31, Section 11
Content:
11.
What we have to seek for, then, is that which does not each day pass more and more under the control of some power which cannot be withstood.
And what is this?
It is the soul,—but the soul that is upright, good, and great.
What else could you call such a soul than a god dwelling as a guest in a human body?
A soul like this may descend into a Roman knight just as well as into a freedman’s son or a slave.
For what is a Roman knight, or a freedman’s son, or a slave?
They are mere titles, born of ambition or of wrong.
One may leap to heaven from the very slums.
Only rise This moulding will not be done in gold or silver; an image that is to be in the likeness of God cannot be fashioned of such materials; remember that the gods, when they were kind unto men, were moulded in clay.
Farewell.