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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Then they fear that for which they strove, and the good fortune which made them weighty in the eyes of others weighs more heavily upon themselves.
Then they praise easy leisure and independence; they hate the glamour and try to escape while their fortunes are still unimpaired.
Then at last you may see them studying philosophy amid their fear, and hunting sound advice when their fortunes go awry.
For these two things are, as it were, at opposite poles—good fortune and good sense; that is why we are wiser when in the midst of adversity.
It is prosperity that takes away righteousness.
Farewell.
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 74
Content:
74.
Then they fear that for which they strove, and the good fortune which made them weighty in the eyes of others weighs more heavily upon themselves.
Then they praise easy leisure and independence; they hate the glamour and try to escape while their fortunes are still unimpaired.
Then at last you may see them studying philosophy amid their fear, and hunting sound advice when their fortunes go awry.
For these two things are, as it were, at opposite poles—good fortune and good sense; that is why we are wiser when in the midst of adversity.
It is prosperity that takes away righteousness.
Farewell.