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Moral Letters Vol III

Seneca

§ Section 14

On the vanity of place-seeking

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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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Surely because of its magnitude.

It is no new idea that certain objects change as they grow.

A person, once a child, becomes a youth; his peculiar quality is transformed; for the child could not reason, but the youth possesses reason.

Certain things not only grow in size as they develop, but grow into something else.