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Moral Letters Vol II

Seneca

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On the healing power of the mind

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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.

26.

For surfeit of self can never seize upon a life that surveys all the things which are manifold, great, divine; only idle leisure is wont to make men hate their lives.

To one who roams through the universe, the truth can never pall; it will be the untruths that will cloy.