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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And yet the stuff they handle soils the soul more than the body, and there is more foulness in the owner than in the workman.
It is therefore indispensable that we be admonished, that we have some advocate with upright mind, and, amid all the uproar and jangle of falsehood, hear one voice only.
But what voice shall this be?
Surely a voice which, amid all the tumult of self-seeking, shall whisper wholesome words into the deafened ear, saying:
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 59
Content:
59.
And yet the stuff they handle soils the soul more than the body, and there is more foulness in the owner than in the workman.
It is therefore indispensable that we be admonished, that we have some advocate with upright mind, and, amid all the uproar and jangle of falsehood, hear one voice only.
But what voice shall this be?
Surely a voice which, amid all the tumult of self-seeking, shall whisper wholesome words into the deafened ear, saying: