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The Moral Letter to Lucilius are a collection of 124 letters which were written by Seneca the Younger at the end of his life, during his retirement, and written after he had worked for the Emperor Nero for fifteen years. (These Moral Letters are the same letters which Tim Ferriss promotes in the Tao of Seneca)
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Translated by Richard Mott Gummere: en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_...
Notes:
“For virtue needs nothing to set it off; it is its own great glory, and it hallows the body in which it dwells.”
“...the soul is not disfigured by the ugliness of the body, but rather the opposite, that the body is beautified by the comeliness of the soul.”
“ 'is there no difference between joy and unyielding endurance of pain?' None at all, as regards the virtues themselves”
“...no act is honourable that is done by an unwilling agent, that is compulsory. Every honourable act is voluntary”
“...when a man is about to do something honourable, he should not regard any obstacles as evils, even though he regard them as inconvenient, but he should will to do the deed, and do it willingly.”
“those things which are thoughtlessly praised, and are goods in the opinion of the mob merely puff us up with empty joy. And again, those things which are feared as if they were evils merely inspire trepidation in men's minds, for the mind is disturbed by the semblance of danger, just as animals are disturbed.”
“Virtue is nothing else than right reason. All virtues are reasons”
“For being wounded, wasting away over a fire, being afflicted with bad health, - such things are contrary to nature; but it is in accordance with nature for a man to preserve an indomitable soul amid such distresses.”
“...the material with which a good is concerned is sometimes contrary to nature, but a good itself never is contrary, since no good is without reason, and reason is in accordance with nature.”
“It requires the same use of reason, I am fully aware, for a man to endure prosperity well and also to endure misfortune bravely”
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