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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When men have begun to desire all things in opposition to the ways of Nature, they end by entirely abandoning the ways of Nature.
They cry: “It is daytime—let us go to sleep!
It is the time when men rest: now for exercise, now for our drive, now for our lunch!
Lo, the dawn approaches: it is dinner-time!
We should not do as mankind do.
It is low and mean to live in the usual and conventional way.
Let us abandon the ordinary sort of day.
Let us have a morning that is a special feature of ours, peculiar to ourselves!”
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 9
Content:
9.
When men have begun to desire all things in opposition to the ways of Nature, they end by entirely abandoning the ways of Nature.
They cry: “It is daytime—let us go to sleep!
It is the time when men rest: now for exercise, now for our drive, now for our lunch!
Lo, the dawn approaches: it is dinner-time!
We should not do as mankind do.
It is low and mean to live in the usual and conventional way.
Let us abandon the ordinary sort of day.
Let us have a morning that is a special feature of ours, peculiar to ourselves!”