On the usefulness of basic principles
95:52
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.
53.
Let this verse be in your heart and on your lips: I am a man; and nothing in man’s lot Do I deem foreign to me.
Let us possess things in common; for birth is ours in common.
Our relations with one another are like a stone arch, which would collapse if the stones did not mutually support each other, and which is upheld in this very way.
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 52
Content:
53.
Let this verse be in your heart and on your lips: I am a man; and nothing in man’s lot Do I deem foreign to me.
Let us possess things in common; for birth is ours in common.
Our relations with one another are like a stone arch, which would collapse if the stones did not mutually support each other, and which is upheld in this very way.