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en-wikipedia-org-1561		De Constantia Sapientis - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	885	187	61	De Constantia Sapientis From the 1643 edition, published by Francesco Baba On the Firmness of the Wise) is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime around 55 AD. De Constantia Sapientis is one of a trio of dialogues addressed to Serenus, which also includes De Tranquillitate Animi and De Otio.[2] The superior position the sage inhabits, of detachment from earthly future events of a detrimental nature, is the unifying theme of the dialogues.[2] Since Serenus is portrayed as not yet a Stoic in De Constantia Sapientis, it is usually considered the earliest of the three dialogues.[3] In De Constantia Sapientis Seneca argues that Stoicism is not as harsh as it first appears. Recalling the figure of Cato the Younger Seneca argues that Cato as a wise person suffered neither injury nor insult. Although Serenus objects to this paradox, Seneca provides further analogies to emphasize the impervious nature of the wise person. Latin Wikisource has original text related to this article: De constantia sapientis Categories: Philosophical works by Seneca the Younger	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1561.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1561.txt