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Moral Letters Vol II

Seneca

§ Section 10

On various aspects of virtue

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Book Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.

Book Description: The second volume of Seneca's moral letters to Lucilius. Each letter contains Seneca's advice and wisdom won from a life of Roman politics.

10.

The good, in every instance, is subject to these same laws.

The advantage of the state and that of the individual are yoked together; indeed it is as impossible to separate them as to separate the commendable from the desirable.

Therefore, virtues are mutually equal; and so are the works of virtue, and all men who are so fortunate as to possess these virtues.