SENECA LVCILIO SVO SALVTEM [1] Peperceram tibi et quidquid nodosi adhuc supererat praeterieram, contentus quasi gustum tibi dare eorum quae a nostris dicuntur ut probetur virtus ad explendam beatam vitam sola satis efficax. It is not, they say, the way of human nature that a man's spirit should be exempt from sadness, or that the wise man is not overcome by grief but is merely touched by it, and other arguments of this sort, all in accordance with the teachings of their school. Aegri animi ista iactatio est: primum argumentum compositae mentis existimo posse consistere et secum morari. This is speed estimated by its own standard, not the kind which wins praise by comparison with that which is slowest. But how can one be happy who is still able, or rather who is still bound, to crave something else? Egli riesce a dominare la sua paura, ma non ne è del tutto immune." But the wise man's good is a common good – it belongs both to those in whose company he lives, and to himself also. Download immediato per Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, E-book di Lucius Annaeus Seneca, pubblicato ... Seneca is so linked with the age in which he lived that in reading his works we read those of a true representative of the most thrilling period of Roman history.