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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Such thoughts permit nothing mean to settle in the soul, nothing low, nothing cruel.
They maintain that the gods are witnesses of everything.
They order us to meet the gods’ approval, to prepare ourselves to join them at some future time, and to plan for immortality.
He that has grasped this idea shrinks from no attacking army, is not terrified by the trumpet-blast, and is intimidated by no threats.
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 29
Content:
29.
Such thoughts permit nothing mean to settle in the soul, nothing low, nothing cruel.
They maintain that the gods are witnesses of everything.
They order us to meet the gods’ approval, to prepare ourselves to join them at some future time, and to plan for immortality.
He that has grasped this idea shrinks from no attacking army, is not terrified by the trumpet-blast, and is intimidated by no threats.