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Moral Letters Vol II

Seneca

§ Section 11

On ill-health and endurance of suffering

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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.

11.

What?

Do you think that those things only are desirable which come to us amid pleasure and ease, and which we bedeck our doors to welcome?

There are certain goods whose features are forbidding.

There are certain prayers which are offered by a throng, not of men who rejoice, but of men who bow down reverently and worship.