On the approaches to philosophy
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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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When Cicero’s book On the State is opened by a philologist, a scholar, or a follower of philosophy, each man pursues his investigation in his own way.
The philosopher wonders that so much could have been said therein against justice.
The philologist takes up the same book and comments on the text as follows: There were two Roman kings—one without a father and one without a mother.
For we cannot settle who was Servius’s mother, and Ancus, the grandson of Numa, has no father on record.
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 30
Content:
30.
When Cicero’s book On the State is opened by a philologist, a scholar, or a follower of philosophy, each man pursues his investigation in his own way.
The philosopher wonders that so much could have been said therein against justice.
The philologist takes up the same book and comments on the text as follows: There were two Roman kings—one without a father and one without a mother.
For we cannot settle who was Servius’s mother, and Ancus, the grandson of Numa, has no father on record.