On the degeneracy of the age
97:3
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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The charge involved less sin than the acquittal; for the defendant on a charge of adultery parcelled out the adulteries, and was not sure of his own safety until he had made the jury criminals like himself.
All this was done at the trial in which Cato gave evidence, although that was his sole part therein.
I shall quote Cicero’s actual words, because the facts are so bad as to pass belief:
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the degeneracy of the age
Location: Chapter 97, Section 3
Content:
3.
The charge involved less sin than the acquittal; for the defendant on a charge of adultery parcelled out the adulteries, and was not sure of his own safety until he had made the jury criminals like himself.
All this was done at the trial in which Cato gave evidence, although that was his sole part therein.
I shall quote Cicero’s actual words, because the facts are so bad as to pass belief: