On the usefulness of basic principles
95:70
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.
71.
What force and energy are his!
What confidence he displays amid the general panic!
He knows that he is the only one whose standing is not in question, and that men do not ask whether Cato is free, but whether he is still among the free.
Hence his contempt for danger and the sword.
What a pleasure it is to say, in admiration of the unflinching steadiness of a hero who did not totter when the whole state was in ruins:
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 70
Content:
71.
What force and energy are his!
What confidence he displays amid the general panic!
He knows that he is the only one whose standing is not in question, and that men do not ask whether Cato is free, but whether he is still among the free.
Hence his contempt for danger and the sword.
What a pleasure it is to say, in admiration of the unflinching steadiness of a hero who did not totter when the whole state was in ruins: