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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Next, he congratulates himself on finding the source of Vergil’s words: Over whose head the mighty gate of Heaven Thunders, remarking that Ennius stole the idea from Homer, and Vergil from Ennius.
For there is a couplet by Ennius, preserved in this same book of Cicero’s, On the State: If it be right for a mortal to scale the regions of Heaven, Then the huge gate of the sky opens in glory to me.
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 34
Content:
34.
Next, he congratulates himself on finding the source of Vergil’s words: Over whose head the mighty gate of Heaven Thunders, remarking that Ennius stole the idea from Homer, and Vergil from Ennius.
For there is a couplet by Ennius, preserved in this same book of Cicero’s, On the State: If it be right for a mortal to scale the regions of Heaven, Then the huge gate of the sky opens in glory to me.