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Seneca the Younger: The Moral Epistles III

Posted on May 4, 2020; Last updated on May 16, 2020

LXXXIV: On Gathering and Digesting Ideas We ought to copy these bees, and sift whatever we have gathered from a varied course of reading, for such things are better preserved if they are kept separate ; then, by applying the supervising care with which our nature has endowed us,—in other words, our natural gifts,—we should so blend those several flavours into one delicious compound that, even though it betrays its […]

Seneca the Younger: The Moral Epistles II

Posted on February 10, 2020; Last updated on May 16, 2020

XLI. On Divinity God is near you, he is with you, he is within you. This is what I mean, Lucilius : a holy spirit indwells within us. one who marks our good and bad deeds, and is our guardian. As we treat this spirit, so are we treated by it. Indeed, no man can be good without the help of God. Can one rise superior to fortune unless God […]

Seneca the Younger: The Moral Epistles

Posted on February 4, 2020; Last updated on May 16, 2020

II. On Discursive Reading Be careful, however, lest this reading of many authors and books of every sort may tend to make you discursive and unsteady. You must linger among a limited number of master- thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind. Everywhere means nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having […]