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Moral Letters Vol II

Seneca

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On the parts of philosophy

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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.

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The greatest authors, and the greatest number of authors, have maintained that there are three divisions of philosophy—moral, natural, and rational.

The first keeps the soul in order; the second investigates the universe; the third works out the essential meanings of words, their combinations, and the proofs which keep falsehood from creeping in and displacing truth.

But there have also been those who divided philosophy on the one hand into fewer divisions, on the other hand into more.