Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65) | Stoicism

Letter 121 CXXI. On Instinct in Animals 1 . You will bring suit against me, I feel sure, when I set forth for you to-day’s little problem, with which we have already fumbled long enough. You will cry out again: “What has this to do with character?" Cry out if you like, but let me first of all match you

Letter 122 CXXII. On Darkness as a Veil for Wickedness 1 . The day has already begun to lessen. It has shrunk considerably, but yet will still allow a goodly space of time if one rises, so to speak, with the day itself. We are more industrious, and we are better men if we anticipate the day and welcome the

Letter 123 CXXIII. On the Conflict between Pleasure and Virtue 1 . Wearied with the discomfort rather than with the length of my journey, I have reached my Alban villa late at night, and I find nothing in readiness except myself. So I am getting rid of fatigue at my writing-table: I derive some good from this tardiness on the

Letter 124 CXXIV. On the True Good as Attained by Reason 1 . Full many an ancient precept could I give, Didst thou not shrink, and feel it shame to learn Such lowly duties. But you do not shrink, nor are you deterred by any subtleties of study. For your cultivated mind is not wont to investigate such important subjects

Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – AD 65), usually known as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and, in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature. As "a major philosophical figure of the Roman Imperial Period", Seneca's lasting contribution to philosophy has been to the school of Stoicism. Seneca wrote a number

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