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Moral Letters Vol III

Seneca

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On the intimations of our immortality

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Book Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.

Book Description: The final volume of Seneca's moral letters. Common Stoic themes emerge again and again: the unreliability of fortune, the ability to form Stoic resolve, and the importance of virtue.

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Just as a man is annoying when he rouses a dreamer of pleasant dreams (for he is spoiling a pleasure which may be unreal but nevertheless has the appearance of reality), even so your letter has done me an injury.

For it brought me back abruptly, absorbed as I was in agreeable meditation and ready to proceed still further if it had been permitted me.