More about virtue
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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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The greatest proof, as I maintain, my dear Lucilius, that the soul proceeds from loftier heights, is if it judges its present situation lowly and narrow, and is not afraid to depart.
For he who remembers whence he has come knows whither he is to depart.
Do we not see how many discomforts drive us wild, and how ill-assorted is our fellowship with the flesh?
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: More about virtue
Location: Chapter 120, Section 15
Content:
15.
The greatest proof, as I maintain, my dear Lucilius, that the soul proceeds from loftier heights, is if it judges its present situation lowly and narrow, and is not afraid to depart.
For he who remembers whence he has come knows whither he is to depart.
Do we not see how many discomforts drive us wild, and how ill-assorted is our fellowship with the flesh?