Between Heathenism and Christianity - College of Stoic Philosophers

Selections from the Writings of Seneca
What fate did not give il did not take away.
To obey God is liberty.
No one is out of the reach of the temptation
of vice unless he has banished it
wholly from his
breast; and no one has banished it
wholly until he has
put wisdom in its stead.
Great is the praise if man is helpful
to man. We
admonish you to extend a hand to the shipwrecked; to
point out the way to the lost; to share your bread
with the hungry.
No one ever renders a service to another without
also rendering a service to himself.
Often what is given is a small matter; what follows
from a it, great one.
When we reason upon the immortality of the soul,
we do not regard as of little weight the universal
belief of men who either fear or revere the gods of the
lower world.
That day which thou dreadest as if it
were thy last
is the day of the birth into eternity.
A time will come that shall unite us and bring us
into each other s company.
Then shall our soul have reason to rejoice because,
freed from this darkness in which it is involved, it
shall see the light, no longer with feeble vision, but
in all the brightness of day, and it will have returned
to its own heaven since it will again occupy the
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