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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This will be a sufficient answer to such dealers in subtleties.
But it should not be our purpose to discuss things cleverly and to drag Philosophy down from her majesty to such petty quibbles.
How much better it is to follow the open and direct road, rather than to map out for yourself a circuitous route which you must retrace with infinite trouble!
For such argumentation is nothing else than the sport of men who are skilfully juggling with each other.
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the intimations of our immortality
Location: Chapter 102, Section 20
Content:
20.
This will be a sufficient answer to such dealers in subtleties.
But it should not be our purpose to discuss things cleverly and to drag Philosophy down from her majesty to such petty quibbles.
How much better it is to follow the open and direct road, rather than to map out for yourself a circuitous route which you must retrace with infinite trouble!
For such argumentation is nothing else than the sport of men who are skilfully juggling with each other.