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Moral Letters Vol III

Seneca

§ Section 10

On the corporeality of virtue

106:10

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.

10.

In short, any act on our part is performed at the bidding of wickedness or virtue.

Only a body can control or forcefully affect another body.

The good of the body is corporeal; a man’s good is related to his bodily good; therefore, it is bodily.