On the Happy Life
Seneca answers his critics — can you preach simplicity while living in luxury? His answer is more honest than you'd expect.
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Watch what happens when someone shakes a rattle and claims a god told them to do it. Or when someone cuts their arms and shoulders until they bleed, pretending it's religious. Or when someone crawls down the street on their knees, howling. Or when some old man dressed in white robes comes out in broad daylight carrying a lamp and laurel branch, shouting that the gods are angry. You all crowd around these people. You hang on their every word. You convince each other that they must be speaking for the gods.