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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:
“For what difference does it make whether a watchtower or a mountain crashes down upon us? No difference at all, you will find"
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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:
“For what difference does it make whether a watchtower or a mountain crashes down upon us? No difference at all, you will find"
#stoicism #seneca #LettersFromaStoic #moralletterstolucilius


![Seneca - Moral Letters - 82: On the Natural Fear of Death
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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: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/
Notes:
“For the soul is made womanish by degrees, and is weakened until it matches the ease and laziness in which it lies”
“Both extremes are to be deprecated – both tension and sluggishness.”
“Leisure without study is death; it is a tomb for the living man.”
“Fortune [can] seize none except him that clings to her.”
“nothing glorious can result from unwillingness and cowardice; virtue does nothing under compulsion.”
“You cannot still braver go, if you are persuaded that those things are the real evils. Root out this idea from your soul; otherwise your apprehensions will remain undecided and will thus check the impulse to action”
“Away, I say, with all that sort of thing, which makes a man feel, when a question is propounded to him, that he is hemmed in, and forces him to admit a premiss, and then makes him say one thing in his answer when his real opinion is another”
“Away, I say, with all that sort of thing, which makes a man feel, when a question is propounded to him, that he is hemmed in, and forces him to admit a premiss, and then makes him say one thing in his answer when his real opinion is another”
“certain arguments are rendered useless and unavailing by their very subtlety”
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![Seneca - Moral Letters - 89: On the Parts of Philosophy
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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: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/
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“For over-analysis is faulty in precisely the same way as no
analysis at all”
“Wisdom is the perfect good of the human mind; philosophy is the
love of wisdom, and the endeavour to attain it”
“[People have referred to philosophy as] a study of the way to
amend the mind”
“For over-analysis is faulty in precisely the same way as no
analysis at all;”
“If any of these three be defective (value, impulse, action], there is
confusion in the rest also. For what benefit is there in having all
things appraised, each in its proper relations, if you go to excess in
your impulses? What benefit is there in having checked your
impulses [and desires], if when you come to action you [do not
know] how each action should be carried out?...Hence life is in
harmony with itself only when action has not deserted impulse,
and when impulse toward an object arises in each case from the
worth of the object...”
“Hence life is in
harmony with itself only when action has not
deserted impulse,
and when impulse toward an object arises in
each case from the
worth of the object”
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