On nature as our best provider
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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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Why need you ask how your food should be served, on what sort of table, with what sort of silver, with what well-matched and smooth-faced young servants?
Nature demands nothing except mere food.
Dost seek, when thirst inflames thy throat, a cup of gold?
Dost scorn all else but peacock’s flesh or turbot When the hunger comes upon thee?
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On nature as our best provider
Location: Chapter 119, Section 13
Content:
13.
Why need you ask how your food should be served, on what sort of table, with what sort of silver, with what well-matched and smooth-faced young servants?
Nature demands nothing except mere food.
Dost seek, when thirst inflames thy throat, a cup of gold?
Dost scorn all else but peacock’s flesh or turbot When the hunger comes upon thee?