On the lesson to be drawn from the burning of Lyons
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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.
20.
What madness it is to be afraid of disrepute in the judgment of the disreputable!
Just as you have had no cause for shrinking in terror from the talk of men, so you have no cause now to shrink from these things, which you would never fear had not their talk forced fear upon you.
Does it do any harm to a good man to be besmirched by unjust gossip?
Book: Moral Letters Vol II
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the lesson to be drawn from the burning of Lyons
Location: Chapter 91, Section 20
Content:
20.
What madness it is to be afraid of disrepute in the judgment of the disreputable!
Just as you have had no cause for shrinking in terror from the talk of men, so you have no cause now to shrink from these things, which you would never fear had not their talk forced fear upon you.
Does it do any harm to a good man to be besmirched by unjust gossip?