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Moral Letters Vol III

Seneca

§ Section 8

On the corporeality of virtue

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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.

8.

Have you any doubt that whatever can touch is corporeal? as Lucretius says.

Moreover, such changes as I have mentioned could not affect the body without touching it.

Therefore, they are bodily.