80 /-60 to /-68
Seneca Letters on Ethics 20.9 (206 U, 125 A) [I-60]
"Your discourse will appear more impressive, believe you me, if you
are lying on a cheap bed and wearing rags. For it will not only be uttered,
then, but proven."
Porphyry To Marcella 29 (207 U, 126 A) [I-61]
"It is better for you to have confidence [about the future] while lying
on a cheap bed than to be disturbed while possessing a golden couch
and an extravagant table."
Seneca Letters on Ethics 7.11 (208 U, 129 A) [I-62]
"I write this for you, not for the many; for we are for each other a
sufficiently big audience."
Gnomologium Parisinum: 1168 f. 115 r. (187 U, [I-63]
131 A)
"I never desired to please the many, for I did not learn the things which
please them, and what I did learn was far removed from their perception."
Didymus Caecus Commentary on Ecclesiastes [I-64]
24.8-11 (133 A)
For he writes [in his letter] to Idomeneus that the wise man uses
circumstances in a way different from he who is not wise, and he adds:
"Then you were not wise, but now you have been zealous to become so.
So reflect on the quality of your former life and of your present life, [to
see] if you bore disease then as you do now or if you were in control of
wealth as you are now in control of it."