On consolation to the bereaved
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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.
28.
Metrodorus says: ‘There is a certain pleasure which is related to sadness.’ We Stoics may say that, but you may not.
The only Good which you recognize, is pleasure, and the only Evil, pain; and what relationship can there be between a Good and an Evil?
But suppose that such a relationship does exist; now, of all times, is it to be rooted out?
Shall we examine grief also, and see with what elements of delight and pleasure it is surrounded?
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On consolation to the bereaved
Location: Chapter 99, Section 28
Content:
28.
Metrodorus says: ‘There is a certain pleasure which is related to sadness.’ We Stoics may say that, but you may not.
The only Good which you recognize, is pleasure, and the only Evil, pain; and what relationship can there be between a Good and an Evil?
But suppose that such a relationship does exist; now, of all times, is it to be rooted out?
Shall we examine grief also, and see with what elements of delight and pleasure it is surrounded?