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Moral Letters Vol III

Seneca

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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.

19.

For this reason, Lucilius, let us keep to the way which Nature has mapped out for us, and let us not swerve therefrom.

If we follow Nature, all is easy and unobstructed; but if we combat Nature, our life differs not a whit from that of men who row against the current.

Farewell.