On worldly deceptions
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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.
8.
Yon other who, proud and wayward and puffed up by confidence in his power, declaims: receives a daily pittance and sleeps on rags.
You may speak in the same way about all these dandies whom you see riding in litters above the heads of men and above the crowd; in every case their happiness is put on like the actor’s mask.
Tear it off, and you will scorn them.
Book: Moral Letters Vol II
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On worldly deceptions
Location: Chapter 80, Section 8
Content:
8.
Yon other who, proud and wayward and puffed up by confidence in his power, declaims: receives a daily pittance and sleeps on rags.
You may speak in the same way about all these dandies whom you see riding in litters above the heads of men and above the crowd; in every case their happiness is put on like the actor’s mask.
Tear it off, and you will scorn them.