Between Heathenism and Christianity - College of Stoic Philosophers

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Selections from the Writings of Seneca
Long is a way by precepts; short and effectual, by
examples.
Weaker minds, however, have need of some one to
go before who shall sa} T ,
This avoid, this do."
The community of which we form a part is very
much like an arch built of stone; it would at
once fall down if one did not support another.
We are members of an immense body. Nature
begat us as kinsmen, since it formed us of the same
elements and for the same end.
What is it that draws us in one direction when we
would go in another, that urges us on when we want
to resist, that strives against
not permit us to do what we purpose?
our desires and does
If them wishest to be loved, love !
No one is free that is the slave of his body.
We ought to live in this thought: I was not born
for a corner only; my country is this entire world.
The beginning of salvation is the knowledge of sin.
Quoted from Epicurus.
Philosophy sheds its light upon all men.
It is so difficult for us to get well because we do not
know that we are sick.
It is the strongest evidence that our mind is di
rected toward its own improvement when we see
faults that we had not before observed.
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