On the diseases of the soul
75:8
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.
8.
You reply: “What?
Are there no degrees of happiness below your ‘happy’ man?
Is there a sheer descent immediately below wisdom?” I think not.
For though he who makes progress is still numbered with the fools, yet he is separated from them by a long interval.
Among the very persons who are making progress there are also great spaces intervening.
They fall into three classes, as certain philosophers believe.
Book: Moral Letters Vol II
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the diseases of the soul
Location: Chapter 75, Section 8
Content:
8.
You reply: “What?
Are there no degrees of happiness below your ‘happy’ man?
Is there a sheer descent immediately below wisdom?” I think not.
For though he who makes progress is still numbered with the fools, yet he is separated from them by a long interval.
Among the very persons who are making progress there are also great spaces intervening.
They fall into three classes, as certain philosophers believe.