Today Seneca continues to explore the relationship between virtue and pleasure. He says, "Yet, if they were entirely inseparable, we should not see some things to be pleasant but not honorable. And others most honorable indeed, but hard and only to be attained by suffering. Add to this that pleasure visits the basest lives, but virtue cannot co-exist with an evil life; yet some unhappy people are not without pleasure."
He's using examples from every day life to show that virtue and pleasure are not the same thing. Where you find one you do not always find the other. And so, he concludes, pleasure is not the highest virtue. What examples do you see in your own life of pleasure and virtue being opposed to one another?
See you tomorrow!
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