On the corporeality of virtue
106:1
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.
My tardiness in answering your letter was not due to press of business.
Do not listen to that sort of excuse; I am at liberty, and so is anyone else who wishes to be at liberty.
No man is at the mercy of affairs.
He gets entangled in them of his own accord, and then flatters himself that being busy is a proof of happiness.
Very well; you no doubt want to know why I did not answer the letter sooner?
The matter about which you consulted me was being gathered into the fabric of my volume.
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the corporeality of virtue
Location: Chapter 106, Section 1
Content:
1.
My tardiness in answering your letter was not due to press of business.
Do not listen to that sort of excuse; I am at liberty, and so is anyone else who wishes to be at liberty.
No man is at the mercy of affairs.
He gets entangled in them of his own accord, and then flatters himself that being busy is a proof of happiness.
Very well; you no doubt want to know why I did not answer the letter sooner?
The matter about which you consulted me was being gathered into the fabric of my volume.