On care of health and peace of mind
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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.
25.
And in these visions what is there, I say, as fear-inspiring as rumour has proclaimed?
Why, pray, my dear Lucilius, should a man fear toil, or a mortal death?
Countless cases occur to my mind of men who think that what they themselves are unable to do is impossible, who maintain that we utter words which are too big for man’s nature to carry out.
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 25
Content:
25.
And in these visions what is there, I say, as fear-inspiring as rumour has proclaimed?
Why, pray, my dear Lucilius, should a man fear toil, or a mortal death?
Countless cases occur to my mind of men who think that what they themselves are unable to do is impossible, who maintain that we utter words which are too big for man’s nature to carry out.