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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:
“None of us is the same man in old age that he was in youth; nor the same on the morrow as the day preceding…of the things which we see, nothing is fixed. Even I myself as I comment on this change, am changed myself”
“That is my habit, Lucilius: I try to extract and render useful some element from every field of thought, no matter how far removed it may be from philosophy”
“…to my mind old age is not to be refused any more than is to be craved.”
“There is a pleasure in being in one's own company as long as possible, when a man has made himself worth enjoying.”
“Is the extremity of life the dregs, or is it the clearest and purest part of all, provided only that the mind is unimpaired, and the senses, still sound, give their support to the spirit, and the body is not worn out and dead before its time?”
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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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All Links: https://linktr.ee/VoxStoica
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Translated by Richard Mott Gummere: en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius
Notes:
“None of us is the same man in old age that he was in youth; nor the same on the morrow as the day preceding…of the things which we see, nothing is fixed. Even I myself as I comment on this change, am changed myself”
“That is my habit, Lucilius: I try to extract and render useful some element from every field of thought, no matter how far removed it may be from philosophy”
“…to my mind old age is not to be refused any more than is to be craved.”
“There is a pleasure in being in one's own company as long as possible, when a man has made himself worth enjoying.”
“Is the extremity of life the dregs, or is it the clearest and purest part of all, provided only that the mind is unimpaired, and the senses, still sound, give their support to the spirit, and the body is not worn out and dead before its time?”
#stoicism #seneca #LettersFromaStoic #moralletterstolucilius
