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Moral Letters Vol II

Seneca

§ Section 3

On drunkenness

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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.

3.

To-day has been unbroken; no one has filched the slightest part of it from me.

The whole time has been divided between rest and reading.

A brief space has been given over to bodily exercise, and on this ground I can thank old age—my exercise costs very little effort; as soon as I stir, I am tired.

And weariness is the aim and end of exercise, no matter how strong one is.