On true and false riches
110:7
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.
7.
But you were wrong, Lucretius; we are not afraid in the daylight; we have turned everything into a state of darkness.
We see neither what injures nor what profits us; all our lives through we blunder along, neither stopping nor treading more carefully on this account.
But you see what madness it is to rush ahead in the dark.
Indeed, we are bent on getting ourselves called back from a greater distance; and though we do not know our goal, yet we hasten with wild speed in the direction whither we are straining.
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 7
Content:
7.
But you were wrong, Lucretius; we are not afraid in the daylight; we have turned everything into a state of darkness.
We see neither what injures nor what profits us; all our lives through we blunder along, neither stopping nor treading more carefully on this account.
But you see what madness it is to rush ahead in the dark.
Indeed, we are bent on getting ourselves called back from a greater distance; and though we do not know our goal, yet we hasten with wild speed in the direction whither we are straining.