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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_letters_to_Lucilius
Notes:
"There is only one good, the cause and the support of a happy life, – trust in oneself
I should rebuke men who toil to no purpose. But when, on the other hand, a man is struggling towards honourable things, in proportion as he applies himself more and more, and allows himself less and less to be beaten or to halt, I shall recommend his conduct and shout my encouragement
Make yourself happy through your own efforts
Work is the sustenance of noble minds,
it is base for a man who has already travelled the whole round of highest honours to be still importuning the gods
What we have to seek for, then, is that which does not each day pass more and more under the control of some power which cannot be withstood. And what is this? It is the soul"
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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:
"There is only one good, the cause and the support of a happy life, – trust in oneself
I should rebuke men who toil to no purpose. But when, on the other hand, a man is struggling towards honourable things, in proportion as he applies himself more and more, and allows himself less and less to be beaten or to halt, I shall recommend his conduct and shout my encouragement
Make yourself happy through your own efforts
Work is the sustenance of noble minds,
it is base for a man who has already travelled the whole round of highest honours to be still importuning the gods
What we have to seek for, then, is that which does not each day pass more and more under the control of some power which cannot be withstood. And what is this? It is the soul"
#stoicism #seneca #LettersFromaStoic #moralletterstolucilius
