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Moral Letters Vol III

Seneca

§ Section 5

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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All these things have a view to conduct, and therefore they have been inserted under the proper topic.

But the remarks of dialecticians in opposition to this idea had to be sifted out, and were accordingly laid aside.

Now that you demand an answer to them all, I shall examine all their statements, and then refute them singly.