Friday, July 25, 2008

Seneca on the importance of knowing the good life



Although we dont know our overall goal, we continue to move as fast as we can in the direction we are already going
(EM III, 269)

Seneca on telling us what we already know



We sometimes know facts without paying attention to them...
Advice is, in fact, a sort of exhortation
(EM III, 29)

Philosophy did not find Plato a nobleman, it made him one - Seneca

Philosophy did not find Plato a nobleman, it made him one
Seneca (EM 1, 289)