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Moral Letters Vol II

Seneca

§ Section 8

On liberal and vocational studies

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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.

Why try to discover whether Penelope was a pattern of purity, or whether she had the laugh on her contemporaries?

Or whether she suspected that the man in her presence was Ulysses, before she knew it was he?

Teach me rather what purity is, and how great a good we have in it, and whether it is situated in the body or in the soul.