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.
69.
It is a great part of health to have forsaken the counsellors of madness and to have fled far from a companionship that is mutually baneful.
That you may know the truth of my remark, see how different is each individual’s life before the public from that of his inner self.
A quiet life does not of itself give lessons in upright conduct; the countryside does not of itself teach plain living; no, but when witnesses and onlookers are removed, faults which ripen in publicity and display sink into the background.
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 69
Content:
69.
It is a great part of health to have forsaken the counsellors of madness and to have fled far from a companionship that is mutually baneful.
That you may know the truth of my remark, see how different is each individual’s life before the public from that of his inner self.
A quiet life does not of itself give lessons in upright conduct; the countryside does not of itself teach plain living; no, but when witnesses and onlookers are removed, faults which ripen in publicity and display sink into the background.