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.
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And at dawn there is a tremendous flurry-calling of slaves and butlers, and pandemonium among the cooks.
I ask the meaning of this also, and they tell me that he has called for his cordial and his appetizer, after leaving the bath.
His dinner,” said Pedo, “never went beyond the day, for he lived very sparingly; he was lavish with nothing but the night.
Accordingly, if you believe those who call him tight-fisted and mean, you will call him also a ‘slave of the lamp.’”
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 16
Content:
16.
And at dawn there is a tremendous flurry-calling of slaves and butlers, and pandemonium among the cooks.
I ask the meaning of this also, and they tell me that he has called for his cordial and his appetizer, after leaving the bath.
His dinner,” said Pedo, “never went beyond the day, for he lived very sparingly; he was lavish with nothing but the night.
Accordingly, if you believe those who call him tight-fisted and mean, you will call him also a ‘slave of the lamp.’”