On various aspects of virtue
66:2
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.
2.
The poet who sang is, in my opinion, mistaken.
For virtue needs nothing to set it off; it is its own great glory, and it hallows the body in which it dwells.
At any rate, I have begun to regard Claranus in a different light; he seems to me handsome, and as well-set-up in body as in mind.
Book: Moral Letters Vol II
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On various aspects of virtue
Location: Chapter 66, Section 2
Content:
2.
The poet who sang is, in my opinion, mistaken.
For virtue needs nothing to set it off; it is its own great glory, and it hallows the body in which it dwells.
At any rate, I have begun to regard Claranus in a different light; he seems to me handsome, and as well-set-up in body as in mind.