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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On that basis, therefore, even consolation would be superfluous, since this also is a combination of the other two, as likewise are exhortation, persuasion, and even proof itself.
For proof also originates from a well-ordered and firm mental attitude.
But, although these things result from a sound state of mind, yet the sound state of mind also results from them; it is both creative of them and resultant from them.
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 49
Content:
49.
On that basis, therefore, even consolation would be superfluous, since this also is a combination of the other two, as likewise are exhortation, persuasion, and even proof itself.
For proof also originates from a well-ordered and firm mental attitude.
But, although these things result from a sound state of mind, yet the sound state of mind also results from them; it is both creative of them and resultant from them.