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This is my own recording of a public domain text. It is not copied and I retain the copyright.
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_letters_to_Lucilius
Notes:
“One must not talk to a man unless he is willing to listen”
“I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know, they do not approve, and what they approve, I do not know”
“It takes trickery to win popular approval; and you must needs make yourself like unto them; they will withhold their approval if they do not recognise you as one of themselves”
“The favour of ignoble men can be won only by ignoble means”
“…prefer to please yourself rather than the populace, it will make you weigh, and not merely count, men's judgments”
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This is my own recording of a public domain text. It is not copied and I retain the copyright.
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)
Support me here:
All Links: https://linktr.ee/VoxStoica
PayPal: paypal.me/RobinHomer
Amazon Referral: geni.us/SupportMeSenecaLetters
Translated by Richard Mott Gummere: en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius
Notes:
“One must not talk to a man unless he is willing to listen”
“I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know, they do not approve, and what they approve, I do not know”
“It takes trickery to win popular approval; and you must needs make yourself like unto them; they will withhold their approval if they do not recognise you as one of themselves”
“The favour of ignoble men can be won only by ignoble means”
“…prefer to please yourself rather than the populace, it will make you weigh, and not merely count, men's judgments”
#stoicism #seneca #LettersFromaStoic #moralletterstolucilius
