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Moral Letters Vol II

Seneca

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On gathering ideas

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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.

9.

Do you not see how many voices there are in a chorus?

Yet out of the many only one voice results.

In that chorus one voice takes the tenor, another the bass, another the baritone.

There are women, too, as well as men, and the flute is mingled with them.

In that chorus the voices of the individual singers are hidden; what we hear is the voices of all together.