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Moral Letters Vol III

Seneca

§ Section 7

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.

7.

Simply this: we believe that nothing is a good, if it be composed of things that are distinct.

For a single good should be checked and controlled by a single soul; and the essential quality of each single good should be single.

This can be proved of itself whenever you desire; in the meanwhile, however, it had to be laid aside, because our own weapons are being hurled at us.