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