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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If reverence reins in the soul and checks vice, why cannot counsel do the same?
Also, if rebuke gives one a sense of shame, why has not counsel the same power, even though it does use bare precepts?
The counsel which assists suggestion by reason—which adds the motive for doing a given thing and the reward which awaits one who carries out and obeys such precepts is—more effective and settles deeper in the heart.
If commands are helpful, so is advice.
But one is helped by commands; therefore one is helped also by advice.
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 44
Content:
44.
If reverence reins in the soul and checks vice, why cannot counsel do the same?
Also, if rebuke gives one a sense of shame, why has not counsel the same power, even though it does use bare precepts?
The counsel which assists suggestion by reason—which adds the motive for doing a given thing and the reward which awaits one who carries out and obeys such precepts is—more effective and settles deeper in the heart.
If commands are helpful, so is advice.
But one is helped by commands; therefore one is helped also by advice.