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.
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One might say: “The virtues are not many living things, and yet they are living things.
For just as an individual may be both poet and orator in one, even so these virtues are living things, but they are not many.
The soul is the same; it can be at the same time just and prudent and brave, maintaining itself in a certain attitude towards each virtue.”
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the vitality of the soul and its attributes
Location: Chapter 113, Section 24
Content:
24.
One might say: “The virtues are not many living things, and yet they are living things.
For just as an individual may be both poet and orator in one, even so these virtues are living things, but they are not many.
The soul is the same; it can be at the same time just and prudent and brave, maintaining itself in a certain attitude towards each virtue.”