More about virtue
120:3
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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We, however, do make the Good and the honourable two things, but we make them out of one: only the honourable can be good; also, the honourable is necessarily good.
I hold it superfluous to add the distinction between these two qualities, inasmuch as I have mentioned it so many times.
But I shall say this one thing—that we regard nothing as good which can be put to wrong use by any person.
And you see for yourself to what wrong uses many men put their riches, their high position, or their physical powers.
To return to the matter on which you desire information: “How we first acquire the knowledge of that which is good and that which is honourable.”
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: More about virtue
Location: Chapter 120, Section 3
Content:
3.
We, however, do make the Good and the honourable two things, but we make them out of one: only the honourable can be good; also, the honourable is necessarily good.
I hold it superfluous to add the distinction between these two qualities, inasmuch as I have mentioned it so many times.
But I shall say this one thing—that we regard nothing as good which can be put to wrong use by any person.
And you see for yourself to what wrong uses many men put their riches, their high position, or their physical powers.
To return to the matter on which you desire information: “How we first acquire the knowledge of that which is good and that which is honourable.”