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.
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Was it not in this fashion, think you, that Regulus prayed that he might reach Carthage?
Clothe yourself with a hero’s courage, and withdraw for a little space from the opinions of the common man.
Form a proper conception of the image of virtue, a thing of exceeding beauty and grandeur; this image is not to be worshipped by us with incense or garlands, but with sweat and blood.
Book: Moral Letters Vol II
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On ill-health and endurance of suffering
Location: Chapter 67, Section 12
Content:
12.
Was it not in this fashion, think you, that Regulus prayed that he might reach Carthage?
Clothe yourself with a hero’s courage, and withdraw for a little space from the opinions of the common man.
Form a proper conception of the image of virtue, a thing of exceeding beauty and grandeur; this image is not to be worshipped by us with incense or garlands, but with sweat and blood.