On the value of advice
94:73
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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He should point out persons, happy in the popular estimation, who totter on their envied heights of power, who are dismayed and hold a far different opinion of themselves from what others hold of them.
That which others think elevated, is to them a sheer precipice.
Hence they are frightened and in a flutter whenever they look down the abrupt steep of their greatness.
For they reflect that there are various ways of falling and that the topmost point is the most slippery.
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 73
Content:
73.
He should point out persons, happy in the popular estimation, who totter on their envied heights of power, who are dismayed and hold a far different opinion of themselves from what others hold of them.
That which others think elevated, is to them a sheer precipice.
Hence they are frightened and in a flutter whenever they look down the abrupt steep of their greatness.
For they reflect that there are various ways of falling and that the topmost point is the most slippery.