On darkness as a veil for wickedness
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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.
13.
And later, when Montanus declaimed Lo, now the shepherds have folded their flocks, and the slow-moving darkness ’Gins to spread silence o’er lands that are drowsily lulled into slumber, this same Varus remarked: “What?
Night already?
I’ll go and pay my morning call on Buta!” You see, nothing was more notorious than Buta’s upside-down manner of life.
But this life, as I said, was fashionable at one time.
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On darkness as a veil for wickedness
Location: Chapter 122, Section 13
Content:
13.
And later, when Montanus declaimed Lo, now the shepherds have folded their flocks, and the slow-moving darkness ’Gins to spread silence o’er lands that are drowsily lulled into slumber, this same Varus remarked: “What?
Night already?
I’ll go and pay my morning call on Buta!” You see, nothing was more notorious than Buta’s upside-down manner of life.
But this life, as I said, was fashionable at one time.