On true and false riches
110:16
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.
16.
Have you noticed how, inside a few hours, that programme, however slow-moving and carefully arranged, was over and done?
Has a business filled up this whole life of ours, which could not fill up a whole day? “I had another thought also: the riches seemed to me to be as useless to the possessors as they were to the onlookers.
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On true and false riches
Location: Chapter 110, Section 16
Content:
16.
Have you noticed how, inside a few hours, that programme, however slow-moving and carefully arranged, was over and done?
Has a business filled up this whole life of ours, which could not fill up a whole day? “I had another thought also: the riches seemed to me to be as useless to the possessors as they were to the onlookers.