On the usefulness of basic principles
95:11
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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To thee shall I reveal the ways of heaven And the gods, spreading before thine eyes The atoms,—whence all things are brought to birth, Increased, and fostered by creative power, And eke their end when Nature casts them off.
Philosophy, therefore, being theoretic, must have her doctrines.
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the usefulness of basic principles
Location: Chapter 95, Section 11
Content:
11.
To thee shall I reveal the ways of heaven And the gods, spreading before thine eyes The atoms,—whence all things are brought to birth, Increased, and fostered by creative power, And eke their end when Nature casts them off.
Philosophy, therefore, being theoretic, must have her doctrines.