On the conflict between pleasure and virtue
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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.
8.
You should avoid conversation with all such persons: they are the sort that communicate and engraft their bad habits from one to another.
We used to think that the very worst variety of these men were those who vaunted their words; but there are certain men who vaunt their wickedness.
Their talk is very harmful; for even though it is not at once convincing, yet they leave the seeds of trouble in the soul, and the evil which is sure to spring into new strength follows us about even when we have parted from them.
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the conflict between pleasure and virtue
Location: Chapter 123, Section 8
Content:
8.
You should avoid conversation with all such persons: they are the sort that communicate and engraft their bad habits from one to another.
We used to think that the very worst variety of these men were those who vaunted their words; but there are certain men who vaunt their wickedness.
Their talk is very harmful; for even though it is not at once convincing, yet they leave the seeds of trouble in the soul, and the evil which is sure to spring into new strength follows us about even when we have parted from them.