# On the Firmness of the Wise Person

- Identifiant : `seneca.de_constantia_sapientis`
- Auteur : Seneca
- URL canonique : https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-constantia-sapientis/
- Empreinte : `f55df1c69a9332f976fcf8eefc02de7b2e3536dc1d1d9c22f864ca80eaad2a71`

## What you will learn

Distinguish moral harm, pain, and insult, understand the Stoic definition of goods, and test the social reach of the wise person’s invulnerability.

## Summary

The text distinguishes injury intending harm from insult seeking humiliation. Examples of philosophers, military comparisons, and definitions of goods sustain the image of a moral citadel inaccessible to fortune.

Such invulnerability does not describe physical insensibility or absence of an initial reaction. It depends on a strict definition of harm as loss of virtue. The thesis gains coherence through that definition but requires attention to what it excludes from social experience of humiliation.