Wisdom / philosophy
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
philosophy · my studies · that oracle · the sacred writings · wisdom
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
Philosophical study, credited by Seneca as the true medicine that restored him during illness.
My studies kept me alive.
On the Happy Life
Philosophical study and teaching, presented as worthy of reverence akin to sacred doctrine.
"Philosophers do not make good what they say.
Look up to virtue, believe those who, having long followed her, cry out that they are following something great and that appears greater day by day, and worship her as you would the gods, and her professors as her priests, and, whenever mention of the sacred writings comes up, keep silence in reverence.