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Moral Letters Vol I

Seneca

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On quiet and study

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15. “What then?” you say, “is it not sometimes a simpler matter just to avoid the uproar?” I admit this.

Accordingly, I shall change from my present quarters.

I merely wished to test myself and to give myself practice.

Why need I be tormented any longer, when Ulysses found so simple a cure for his comrades even against the songs of the Sirens?

Farewell.