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.
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Nothing is more successful in bringing honourable influences to bear upon the mind, or in straightening out the wavering spirit that is prone to evil, than association with good men.
For the frequent seeing, the frequent hearing of them little by little sinks into the heart and acquires the force of precepts.
We are indeed uplifted merely by meeting wise men; and one can be helped by a great man even when he is silent.
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the value of advice
Location: Chapter 94, Section 40
Content:
40.
Nothing is more successful in bringing honourable influences to bear upon the mind, or in straightening out the wavering spirit that is prone to evil, than association with good men.
For the frequent seeing, the frequent hearing of them little by little sinks into the heart and acquires the force of precepts.
We are indeed uplifted merely by meeting wise men; and one can be helped by a great man even when he is silent.