On the approaches to philosophy
108:9
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.
9.
The poor lack much; the greedy man lacks all.
A greedy man does good to none; he does Most evil to himself.
At such verses as these, your meanest miser claps applause and rejoices to hear his own sins reviled.
How much more do you think this holds true, when such things are uttered by a philosopher, when he introduces verses among his wholesome precepts, that he may thus make those verses sink more effectively into the mind of the neophyte!
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 9
Content:
9.
The poor lack much; the greedy man lacks all.
A greedy man does good to none; he does Most evil to himself.
At such verses as these, your meanest miser claps applause and rejoices to hear his own sins reviled.
How much more do you think this holds true, when such things are uttered by a philosopher, when he introduces verses among his wholesome precepts, that he may thus make those verses sink more effectively into the mind of the neophyte!