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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Some have reversed the functions of light and darkness; they open eyes sodden with yesterday’s debauch only at the approach of night.
It is just like the condition of those peoples whom, according to Vergil, Nature has hidden away and placed in an abode directly opposite to our own: When in our face the Dawn with panting steeds Breathes down, for them the ruddy evening kindles Her late-lit fires.
It is not the country of these men, so much as it is their life, that is “directly opposite” to our own.
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 2
Content:
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Some have reversed the functions of light and darkness; they open eyes sodden with yesterday’s debauch only at the approach of night.
It is just like the condition of those peoples whom, according to Vergil, Nature has hidden away and placed in an abode directly opposite to our own: When in our face the Dawn with panting steeds Breathes down, for them the ruddy evening kindles Her late-lit fires.
It is not the country of these men, so much as it is their life, that is “directly opposite” to our own.