On care of health and peace of mind
104:1
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.
1.
I have run off to my villa at Nomentum, for what purpose, do you suppose?
To escape the city?
No; to shake off a fever which was surely working its way into my system.
It had already got a grip upon me.
My physician kept insisting that when the circulation was upset and irregular, disturbing the natural poise, the disease was under way.
I therefore ordered my carriage to be made ready at once, and insisted on departing, in spite of my wife Paulina’s efforts to stop me; for I remembered my master Gallio’s words, when he began to develop a fever in Achaia and took ship at once, insisting that the disease was not of the body but of the place.
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On care of health and peace of mind
Location: Chapter 104, Section 1
Content:
1.
I have run off to my villa at Nomentum, for what purpose, do you suppose?
To escape the city?
No; to shake off a fever which was surely working its way into my system.
It had already got a grip upon me.
My physician kept insisting that when the circulation was upset and irregular, disturbing the natural poise, the disease was under way.
I therefore ordered my carriage to be made ready at once, and insisted on departing, in spite of my wife Paulina’s efforts to stop me; for I remembered my master Gallio’s words, when he began to develop a fever in Achaia and took ship at once, insisting that the disease was not of the body but of the place.