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Moral Letters Vol II

Seneca

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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.

28.

Why is no good greater than any other good?

It is because nothing can be more fitting than that which is fitting, and nothing more level than that which is level.

You cannot say that one thing is more equal to a given object than another thing; hence also nothing is more honourable than that which is honourable.