On the true good as attained by reason
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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.
17.
How, then, can we regard as perfect the nature of those who have no experience of time in its perfection?
For time is three-fold,—past, present, and future.
Animals perceive only the time which is of greatest moment to them within the limits of their coming and going—the present.
Rarely do they recollect the past—and that only when they are confronted with present reminders.
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the true good as attained by reason
Location: Chapter 124, Section 17
Content:
17.
How, then, can we regard as perfect the nature of those who have no experience of time in its perfection?
For time is three-fold,—past, present, and future.
Animals perceive only the time which is of greatest moment to them within the limits of their coming and going—the present.
Rarely do they recollect the past—and that only when they are confronted with present reminders.