Between Heathenism and Christianity - College of Stoic Philosophers

Selections from the Writings of Seneca
is baser to write one thing nnd mean another.
A wise man will pardon an injury, though
it be
great, and if he can do it without breach of piety and
fidelity, that is, if the whole injury pertains to him
self.
As far as thou canst, accuse thyself, try thyself, dis
charge the office, first of a prosecutor, then of a judge,
lastly of an intercessor.
We can never quarrel enough with our vices, which,
I beseech thee, persecute perpetually. Cast from
thee everything that corrupts the heart; and if thou
canst not otherwise get rid of it, spare
itself.
FROM DE BENEFICIIS.
not the heart
Nature is not without God nor is God without na
ture. Both are the same and their functions are the
same. Bo, too, nature, destiny, fortune, are all the
names of the same God.
It is the mark of a noble and generous soul to be
helpful, to do good; he who confers favors, imitates
the gods.
Beneficence always makes haste; what one does
willingly one does quickly.
We owe no thanks for a favor that has for a long
time adhered to the hands of the giver, as it were;
which he seems to have let go with reluctance and
which one might almost say had been wrested from
him.
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