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.
48.
It is said: “Philosophy is divided into knowledge and state of mind.
For one who has learned and understood what he should do and avoid, is not a wise man until his mind is metamorphosed into the shape of that which he has learned.
This third department—that of precept—is compounded from both the others, from dogmas of philosophy and state of mind.
Hence it is superfluous as far as the perfecting of virtue is concerned; the other two parts are enough for the purpose.”
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 48
Content:
48.
It is said: “Philosophy is divided into knowledge and state of mind.
For one who has learned and understood what he should do and avoid, is not a wise man until his mind is metamorphosed into the shape of that which he has learned.
This third department—that of precept—is compounded from both the others, from dogmas of philosophy and state of mind.
Hence it is superfluous as far as the perfecting of virtue is concerned; the other two parts are enough for the purpose.”