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Moral Letters Vol II

Seneca

§ Section 4

On the happy life

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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.

4.

What more can one desire who possesses all honourable things?

For if dishonourable things can contribute to the best estate, then there will be the possibility of a happy life under conditions which do not include an honourable life.

And what is more base or foolish than to connect the good of a rational soul with things irrational?