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Moral Letters Vol III

Seneca

§ Section 35

On the value of advice

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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.

35. “Precepts,” it is said “are numberless.” Wrong again!

For they are not numberless so far as concerns important and essential things.

Of course there are slight distinctions, due to the time, or the place, or the person; but even in these cases, precepts are given which have a general application.