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Moral Letters Vol III

Seneca

§ Section 15

On the vitality of the soul and its attributes

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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.

15.

Again, no living thing is part of another living thing.

But Justice is a part of the soul; therefore Justice is not a living thing.

It looks as if I were wasting time over something that is an acknowledged fact; for one ought to decry such a topic rather than debate it.

And no two living things are equal.

Consider the bodies of all beings: every one has its particular colour, shape, and size.