On drunkenness
83:2
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.
2.
I shall therefore do as you bid, and shall gladly inform you by letter what I am doing, and in what sequence.
I shall keep watching myself continually, and—a most useful habit—shall review each day.
For this is what makes us wicked: that no one of us looks back over his own life.
Our thoughts are devoted only to what we are about to do.
And yet our plans for the future always depend on the past.
Book: Moral Letters Vol II
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On drunkenness
Location: Chapter 83, Section 2
Content:
2.
I shall therefore do as you bid, and shall gladly inform you by letter what I am doing, and in what sequence.
I shall keep watching myself continually, and—a most useful habit—shall review each day.
For this is what makes us wicked: that no one of us looks back over his own life.
Our thoughts are devoted only to what we are about to do.
And yet our plans for the future always depend on the past.