On the approaches to philosophy
108:28
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.
28.
We must catch that which flees.
Now he who scans with a scholar’s eye the lines I have just quoted, does not reflect that our first days are the best because disease is approaching and old age weighs upon us and hangs over our heads while we are still thinking about our youth.
He thinks rather of Vergil’s usual collocation of disease and eld; and indeed rightly.
For old age is a disease which we cannot cure.
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the approaches to philosophy
Location: Chapter 108, Section 28
Content:
28.
We must catch that which flees.
Now he who scans with a scholar’s eye the lines I have just quoted, does not reflect that our first days are the best because disease is approaching and old age weighs upon us and hangs over our heads while we are still thinking about our youth.
He thinks rather of Vergil’s usual collocation of disease and eld; and indeed rightly.
For old age is a disease which we cannot cure.