Brief 19

On Worldliness

De rebus mundanis

Zusammenfassung

Seneca advises on worldly success and warns against being corrupted by prosperity. He emphasizes maintaining virtue regardless of external circumstances.

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Translated by Richard M. Gummere, 1917

Übersetzungen vergleichen

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