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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.

42.

One man dies young, another in old age, and still another in infancy, having enjoyed nothing more than a mere glimpse out into life.

They have all been equally subject to death, even though death has permitted the one to proceed farther along the pathway of life, has cut off the life of the second in his flower, and has broken off the life of the third at its very beginning.