On the vanity of place-seeking
118:10
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.
10.
The present topic suggests that I state the difference between the Good and the honourable.
Now they have a certain quality which blends with both and is inseparable from either: nothing can be good unless it contains an element of the honourable, and the honourable is necessarily good.
What, then, is the difference between these two qualities?
The honourable is the perfect Good, and the happy life is fulfilled thereby; through its influence other things also are rendered good.
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the vanity of place-seeking
Location: Chapter 118, Section 10
Content:
10.
The present topic suggests that I state the difference between the Good and the honourable.
Now they have a certain quality which blends with both and is inseparable from either: nothing can be good unless it contains an element of the honourable, and the honourable is necessarily good.
What, then, is the difference between these two qualities?
The honourable is the perfect Good, and the happy life is fulfilled thereby; through its influence other things also are rendered good.