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.
72.
Therefore, if our dwelling is situated amid the din of a city, there should be an adviser standing near us.
When men praise great incomes, he should praise the person who can be rich with a slender estate and measures his wealth by the use he makes of it.
In the face of those who glorify influence and power, he should of his own volition recommend a leisure devoted to study, and a soul which has left the external and found itself.
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 72
Content:
72.
Therefore, if our dwelling is situated amid the din of a city, there should be an adviser standing near us.
When men praise great incomes, he should praise the person who can be rich with a slender estate and measures his wealth by the use he makes of it.
In the face of those who glorify influence and power, he should of his own volition recommend a leisure devoted to study, and a soul which has left the external and found itself.