That there may be someone to sit by him when he is ill to help him when he is in prison or in want.

Seneca quotes epicurus. These goods if they are complete do not increase. Seneca quotes Epicurus he rebukes those who hold that the wise man is self-sufficient and for that reason does not stand in need of friendships Our ideal wise man feels his troubles. Seneca flips Epicurus saying friends should not be made for our own benefit but so that on the contrary we may have someone by whose sickbed we.

True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have which is sufficient for he that is so wants nothing. Yet Seneca quotes Epicurus extensively. Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones Seneca.

The supreme good is the harmony of the soul. Nobody cares about the good life but to live long so that all can give happiness to live well not long to live. Seneca and wisdom.

Look to virtue and endure suffering and you will be above it. It is absurd he says to run towards death because you are tired of life when it is your manner of life that has made you run towards death. Seneca quotes a letter of Epicurus as saying that the wise man needs friends for the reason.

Final thoughts about Seneca and the book. Love in its essence is spiritual fire Seneca. In his De vita beata Seneca states that the sect of Epicurus.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality Seneca. Senecas Letters Book II Letter LXVI We find mentioned in the works of Epicurus two goods of which his Supreme Good or blessedness is composed namely a body free from pain and a soul free from disturbance. In the time of Seneca women were second class citizens.