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.
55.
We should, therefore, have a guardian, as it were, to pluck us continually by the ear and dispel rumours and protest against popular enthusiasms.
For you are mistaken if you suppose that our faults are inborn in us; they have come from without, have been heaped upon us.
Hence, by receiving frequent admonitions, we can reject the opinions which din about our ears.
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 55
Content:
55.
We should, therefore, have a guardian, as it were, to pluck us continually by the ear and dispel rumours and protest against popular enthusiasms.
For you are mistaken if you suppose that our faults are inborn in us; they have come from without, have been heaped upon us.
Hence, by receiving frequent admonitions, we can reject the opinions which din about our ears.