Between Heathenism and Christianity - College of Stoic Philosophers

Selections from the Writings of Seneca
after the example of others. We are not guided by
reason but led astray by custom.
Money never made anybody rich.
Why did God create the world? He is good; a
good being feels no aversion to anything that is good.
Therefore He made the world as good as possible.
Quoted from Plato.
Some of our time is filched from us, some is stolen
outright, some passes unnoticed. But most reprehen
sible of all things is to lose it by mere negligence; and
if you will note carefully, men spend a
great part of
life in doing evil, the greatest part in doing nothing
the whole of it
doing something else than they ought.
Whom will you name that places any value on time?
Who prizes a day? Who realizes that he is dying daily?
For we err when we regard death as something in the
future;
a great part of it has already passed; the por
tion of our life that is behind us, death holds. Do,
therefore, Lucilius, what you write that you are doing,
husband every hour; you will be less dependent upon
to-morrow if you seize to=day. Everything else be
longs to others, time only is ours,
There is a great difference between not wanting to
sin and not knowing how.
If thou wouldst get rid of thy vices keep
bad company.
He worships God who knows Him.
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No one commits wrongs for himself alone; he com
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