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Moral Letters Vol III

Seneca

§ Section 5

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.

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This is also a source of no mean joy and profit; for what is sweeter than to be so valued by one’s wife that one becomes more valuable to oneself for this reason?

Hence my dear Paulina is able to make me responsible, not only for her fears, but also for my own.